Background The impact of concomitant vitamin D deficiency and maternal hypocalcemia on fetal growth has is not clear. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of treatment with vitamin D on maternal and neonatal indices in pregnant women with hypocalcemia. Materials and Methods This clinical trial was conducted on 110 pregnant women (22-26 weeks of gestational age) with simultaneous m...

background: frozen- thawed embryo transfer is an essential part of art treatment and outcomes of this procedure are associated with several clinical factors. several studies have showed an increase level of ivf outcomes in women with sufficient vitamin d. objective: whether treatment of vitamin d insufficiency can improve pregnancy rates in frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles. materials and me...

Introduction: Vitamin D deficiency and rickets continue to be health problems in developing countries and most of the infants with congenital rickets may present with hypocalcemic seizure.   Case Report In this article, the report on four infants who presented with hypocalcemic seizures but subsequently were found to have congenital rickets is presented. All of them had hypocalcaemia and low le...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is a complex neurological disease and its prevalence is about 2 million in the world. neuroinflammation plays a key role in ms. vitamins are essential nutrients that have effective role on immune system including activation of lymphocyte and differentiation of t-helper cell. vitamin d is a micronutrient that is effective on immune function. deficiently of vitamin d is a ...

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...

conclusion: this study showed positive effect of the 2000 iu/day oral vitamin d on the serum level elevation of this vitamin in reproductive women. results: at baseline the mean serum levels of vitamin d in the control group was 23.34 ± 15.87 nmol/l and in intervention group was 25.13 ± 18.46 nmol/l, that these values didn’t have any significant difference (p = 0.43), while after intervention, ...