Vitamin D Status in Secondary Care Patients

Abstract

Vitamin D deficiency is defined as a 25(OH) D below 20ng/ml (50 nmol/liter) 1,2. Patients who were previously treated or are currently being treated for vitamin D deficiency and patients with vitamin D toxicity (serum values above 100 nmol/l) were excluded. Vitamin D deficiency is a growing problem worldwide; it is associated with a variety of disease 3,4. Vitamin D receptor is present in most tissues and cells of the body. Vitamin D deficiency could lead to complications, such as low bone mineral density, osteopenia and osteoporosis, cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases, and increased cancer risk 1,4,5. Vitamin D deficiency evaluation is important to avoid diverse health conditions 3,6,7 .

Vitamin D study: a retrospective comparison between two tropical countries: India and Bahrain

“…This study also detected Bahraini females to have higher rate of VDD as compared to males. 19 Though our findings for VDD showed higher prevalence among males at 42.7% compared to females at 40.2%, the difference was not statistically significant. Another published report on adult Bahrainis involved studying predictors of VDD and VDI among 500 healthy individuals.…”