Publications by authors named "Sailaja Boddu"
Objective: To determine the association between serum vitamin D level and left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction.
Background: Vitamin D deficiency has been shown in observational and prospective studies to be associated with cardiovascular diseases including coronary artery disease, LV hypertrophy and systolic heart failure. Even though diastolic LV dysfunction is an early manifestation of cardiac disease, there is no study that examines whether a deficiency of vitamin D is associated with LV diastolic dysfunction.