Cholecalciferol supplementation lowers leptin and TMAO but increases NO and VEGF-A levels in obese vitamin D deficient patients: Is it one of the potential cardioprotective mechanisms of vitamin D?

Table 1 Anthropometric data of patients

	Baseline	After 3 months of supplementation
Male
Number	17
Age (mean)	40.59
BMI (kg/m²)	37.85 ± 5.92	37.98 ± 6.59 (p = 0.651)
Female
Number	16
Age (mean)	47.69
BMI (kg/m²)	35.92 ± 6.10	35.6 ± 6.33 (p = 0.052)

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