Background : Some studies have shown that the serum concentration of 25- hydroxy vitamin D which is represent the status of body vitamin D, has a diverse relationship with obesity status, and the risk of obesity decreases in people with high level of 25- hydroxy vitamin D. The aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between the serum level of 25- hydroxy vitamin D and anthropometric...

Background Recently the prevalence of obesity and its comorbidities has increased in children, in the worldwide. Some evidences show that there is a reverse relation between the serum level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D[25(OH)D] and Body mass index (BMI). The purpose of this study was scrutiny response to treatment vitamin D deficiency in obese/overweight children. Materials and Methods  In this cross...

Neutrophil mobility in 60 patients with vitamin D-deficient rickets is studied, and the patients are followed after therapy by 600,000 units vitamin D. 28 of 60 patients (46%), had low chemotaxis for neutrophils before vitamin D injection (migration), and 36 of 60 (60%) had low random mobility. The results showed a significant improvement after vitamin D therapy furthermore, the level of c...

results there were no significant differences in baseline characteristics between two groups except serum ast level. complete evr rate at week 12 in the vitamin d group was significantly higher than the controls (100% vs 84.4%; p = 0.023) whereas this figure was not significant when genotypes 1 and 4 or 2 and 3 in the test group were compared to those of the control (100% vs 86.7%; p = 0.19 and...

vitamin d is essential for growth and vitamin d deficiency is important issue in adolescent girls as they have a limited rapid growth period .this cross sectional study was done on 167 female students in secondary guidance school in 2006. growth parameters, taking supplementary vitamin d, using sunscreen creams and the type of housing and their avoidance from exposure to sunlight was recorded. ...

abstractbackground: previous studies revealed that maternal serum level of vitamin d can influence neonatal outcomes. in this controlled trial, we evaluated the effect of vitamin d supplementation during pregnancy on birth weight.methods: in this interventional study, we enrolled 67 pregnant women (gestation: 10 weeks), who referred to seyyedal shohada hospital during two years (from january 20...

conclusions the initial assumption of a relationship between vitamin d and high prevalence of seasonal affective disorder in winter was based on the high prevalence of depression on high latitudes. although some studies have shown an association between depression and vitamin d deficiency, it still cannot be indisputably concluded that augmenting the levels of vitamin d alone alleviate depressi...

background: multiple sclerosis (ms) is an autoimmune,  neuro- inflammatory disease  of  central nervous system affecting physical, emotional, and cognitive aspects of patients. association of vitamin d deficiency and ms has been shown in previous studies. the aim of this study was to evaluate serum vitamin d level in ms cases and their sex-matched healthy siblings (who are genetically near simi...