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TITLE:

SERUM VITAMIN-D ANALYSIS: A CROSS SECTIONAL SURVEY AT LUMHS

AUTHORS:

Muhammad Aslam Rind*, Maria Nazeer, Muhammad Saleem Rind, Iffat Jamal, Shahzad Shaikh, Muhammad Fahad Pathan

ABSTRACT:

Vitamin D is very important in children for teeth and bones development, its deficiency results in rickets while in adults it may present as osteomalacia, osteoporosis and arthritis causing joint pain. Supplementations (Oral or injectable) are required if serum levels fall below normal (30-50 ng/ml). Observational study conducted at LUMHS Jamshoro from November 2016 to November 2017. We evaluated 800 patients following selection through Probability sampling under inclusion and exclusion criteria analyzing the obtained data on SPSS version 22 using Student’s t-test. There were 429(53.63%) male and 313(46.37%) females Vitamin –D. Mean of the serum vitamin –D levels was15.61+9.64 ng/ml in men while it was 17.02+12.57ng/ml in women. 69.5% of the study population was found deficiency <20ng/ml while 15.5% were having insufficient levels<30ng/ml and only 15% showed normal levels 30-50ng/ml. There was a significant difference between the two genders with p value 0.082 Conclusion: Vitamin –D was found deficient in the study subjects with non-significant gender difference statistically. Key words: Vitamin-D, Osteoporosis, Arthritis, Rickets

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