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 ...

Background and Aims: Vitamin D plays an important role in bone health, cardiovascular health, brain development, immune system regulation, mood regulation, and cancer prevention. This study aimed to evaluate the vitamin D status and the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in Jirof city, Kerman Province, south of Iran. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 5243 people were select...

In ruminants, circulating vitamin D levels may be influenced by photoperiod, nutrition, physiological stage, ambient temperature, attitude and season, whereas, in meat, vitamin D content may be impacted by vitamin D status of animal, ageing and cooking. The information on nutritional value of camel milk and meat is largely available, but, there are very few reports evaluating the vitamin D leve...

vitamin d deficiency is one of the most preventable challenges worldwide. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of vitamin d deficiency among female nurses working at children’s medical center hospital in tehran, iran, due to the risk factor of being a notably long period indoors and the fact that their health status may have consequences on the process of patients’ treatment. a...

background and objectives: vitamin d deficiency/insufficiency is a global health problem. the importance of this problem is doubled in growing children because of their increased need for skeletal growth. this investigation was performed firstly to assess vitamin d status, and secondly to examine its possible relationship with sex, residing area and duration of sun exposure in 9-12 years old ch...

objective: maternal hypovitaminosis d may impair fetal growth and cause adverse pregnancy outcomes including intrauterine growth restriction and neonatal low birth weight. the aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between maternal vitamin d status and neonate’s birth weight. materials and methods: a cross-sectional, descriptive analytical study was carried out in the nursery ward of...

Abstract Background: Vitamin D (vit D) deficiency has been found to have an inverse relationship with the occurrence of type-2 diabetes mellitus (DM). The aim of this study was to assess the vit D level in type-2 diabetic patients. Methods: One hundred-twenty DM patients selected as case group and 120 healthy individuals as control group were investigated in this study from October 2011 to S...