In order to work towards further reduction of vitamin A deficiency in central Java, Indonesia, a social marketing campaign promoting eggs and dark-green leafy vegetables was initiated in March 1996. The nutritional surveillance system (December 1995-December 1996) found the following. The campaign's messages were well noticed. Consumption of at least one egg in the past week increased from 80% ...

abstractbackground: premenstrual syndrome (pms) is among the most unfavorable problems in women in reproductive age; however its pathophysiology is still not fully confirmed. vitamin d as an immunomodulator could prevent inflammatory state before and during menstruation.objective: the aim was to investigate whether there is any relationship between serum vitamin d levels and pms.materials and m...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the iron nutritional status of children from 6 to 59 months of age and its relation to vitamin A deficiency. METHOD Cross-sectional study involving 100 children, living in nine cities in the state of Paraíba, which were selected for convenience to form two study groups: children with vitamin A deficiency (serum retinol < 0.70 μmol/L; n = 50) and children without vitamin ...

OBJECTIVES To identify the prevalence of zinc deficiency in a population with high prevalence of vitamin A deficiency; to verify whether zinc deficiency is associated with vitamin A deficiency in the population studied; to verify risk factors for zinc deficiency (sex, age, diarrhea and fever). METHOD Cross-sectional study of 182 healthy children aged > or = 24 months and < 72 months. Peripher...

Low plasma level of vitamin D is linked to the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia and peripheral vascular diseases. Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide problem that involves Iranian population. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first investigation on venous thromboembolism (VTE) subjects that assessed the correlation of vitamin D leve...

Low plasma level of vitamin D is linked to the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia and peripheral vascular diseases. Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide problem that involves Iranian population. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first investigation on venous thromboembolism (VTE) subjects that assessed the correlation of vitamin D leve...

vitamin d deficiency has been proposed as an associating factor with increased blood pressure. we studied the relationship between serum vitamin d and blood pressure in a large representative sample of iranian population. in this cross-sectional study, based on the data of 2508 adults (aged between 20 and 70 years) from the iran multicenter osteoporosis study (imos), the association between ser...

  Purpose: To determine the serum levels of vitamin D and calcium in patients with spinal cord   injuries and their association with the scope of the lesion and the time passed since its inception.   Materials and Methods: The participants were 147 spinal cord injured patients with the required   criteria who had referred to our center. A questionnaire was filled for all of them to gather   dem...

Background: Gestational diabetes is one of the common causes of maternal and fetal complications. Due to fetal and maternal complications of diabetes, it is very important to reduce the prevalence of diabetes and its consequences. The relationship between vitamin D deficiency and type 2 diabetes has been reported. There is little information about the relationship between serum vitamin D levels...