Dr. Phillip Levy, associate professor of emergency medicine at Wayne State University's School of Medicine, has received a $1.9 million National Institutes of Health grant to study the role of vitamin D in halting and reducing subclinical cardiac damage in African-Americans suffering from high blood pressure. Levy will use the five-year grant to determine how vitamin D affects cardiac structure and function, and vascular function in blacks with hypertension. \"Vitamin D is an inexpensive therapeutic intervention, which, if shown to be efficacious, could greatly enhance the existing approach to secondary disease prevention in a widely accessible, cost-effective manner,\" Levy said.

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