Purpose: To determine vitamin D levels in patients of senile cataract and compare them with age related controlpatients.Study Design: Case control observational study.Place and Duration of Study: Naseer Memorial Hospital, Dadhyal Azad Kashmir from March 2016 to June2017.Material and Methods: Three hundred patients were selected and two groups were designed for the study.Group I included patients having senile cataract of any morphological type. The inclusion criteria were age of 50years or more. Group II was control in which age matched controls that had no cataract were enrolled from theoutpatient clinic. Vitamin D levels were measured by radioimmunoassay technique with Diasorin SR® kit followingthe user’s manual. The collected data was entered in the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version21 for analysis. Independent t –test was used to determine the significant difference of means between controlsand patients. P value less than 0.05 was considered as significant.Results: Group I consisted of 65.33 % females and 35.66% males whereas in group II were 68% females and32% males. The mean age of patients was 63.20 ± 9.5 years in group I and 65.5 ± 8.9 years in group II.Statistically no significant difference (p>0.05) was found between mean Vitamin D levels in cataract patients(25.95 ± 3.75 ng/mL vs. and age matched control (29.02 ± 5.11ng/mL).Conclusion: There was no statistically significant difference between the vitamin D levels of cataract patientsand the age matched controls

Purpose: To determine the levels of Vitamin D in children with myopia and to compare them with age matched controls. Study Design:  Case control study. Place and Duration of Study:  The study was conducted in Naseer Memorial Hospital, Dadhyal Azad Kashmir from March 2016 to March 2017. Material and Methods:  Two hundred patients were selected using convenient sampling technique and were divided two groups (group I Myopic and group II control). Myopia was labeled if after subjective refraction a Spherical Equivalent (SE) of −0.50 diopters (D) or more was found. Vitamin D levels were measured by radioimmunoassay technique with Diasorin SR® kit following the user’s manual. Vitamin D levels less than 20 ng/ml were considered Vitamin D deficient following the standards of American academy of pediatrics. The collected data was entered in the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 21 for analysis. Independent t–test was used to determine the significant difference of means between controls and patients. P-values less than 0.05 were considered significant. Results:  Mean age of controls and myopes were 10.65 ± 3.9 and 10.20 ± 2.5 years respectively. Vitamin D levels in myopic children were found to be 14.95 ± 3.75 ng/ml and there was no significant difference in mean values of Vitamin D levels in myopic and control group. Conclusion:  We found no difference in Vitamin D levels of myopic and non myopic children and concluded that Vitamin D has no role in development or progression of myopia.

Purpose:  To determine the frequency of depressive illness in patients presenting with ocular complaints. Study Design:  Observational cross sectional study, Place and Duration of Study:  Watim Medical College, Rawat, Rawalpindi, from October 2021 to November 2021. Methods:  All the patients presenting with ocular diseases and visiting were included in the study. Patients were asked to complete an Urdu translated version of patient health questionnaire (PHQ 9). Inclusion criteria was patients more than 40 years of age, with ocular complaints and either gender. Patients with age less than 40 years, mentally and physically handicapped, having a previous history of psychiatric disease, deaf and mute, any terminal, chronic or debilitating ocular or systemic disease were excluded. The results were analyzed and expressed with descriptive data in frequencies and the numerical data in average and standard deviations. Chi square test of significance was applied taking p value of less than 0.05 as significant. Results:  A total of 537 patients (43.95% males and 56.05% females) were included. 60.71% of the participants were suffering from moderate to severe depression. Among them 12.1% had moderately severe and 16.76% had severe depression. More females (19.55%) suffered from depression which required treatment than males (9.31%). Conclusion:  Significant number of patients presenting with ocular complaints suffered from depression, which can affect or may be effected by the underlying ocular disease. The ophthalmologists should be aware of the entity and should take into account while treating the ocular disease. Key Words:  Eye, Depression, Dry eye disease