background iron and vitamin d inadequacy are both essential wellbeing issues, an extra advancement has been the vitamin d extra skeletal role. late collecting proof demonstrates that vitamin d inadequacy is pervasive in people with pallor, we meant to recognize a potential relationship between vitamin d lack and iron insufficiency. materials and methods a case control study was done in erbil, i...

we investigated the association between serum 25(oh) d levels and depressive symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder (mdd).eighty-five adults, 44 drug free patients with mdd and 41 apparently healthy controls, participated in the study. the hamilton depression rating scale was used to assess severity of major depression. mental health of the controls was assessed according to dsm-iv...

background: vitamin d deficiency is a pandemic problem mostly diagnosed in elderly. few studies are available exclusively done on the topic among young adults. specific professions such as medical students may have higher risk for developing hypovitaminosis d. we aimed to assess the vitamin d status in medical students of iran university of medical sciences; and to define a cut‑off point for 25...

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, ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Ultrasonographic detection of subclinical atheromatosis is a noninvasive method predicting cardiovascular events. Risk factors predicting atheromatosis progression in CKD are unknown. Predictors of atheromatosis progression were evaluated in patients with CKD. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Our multicenter, prospective, observational study included 155...

Objective: The current study was conducted to compare the effect of 150,000 and 300,000 IU of vitamin D on the healing status of diabetic foot ulcer among the patients with diabetes. Materials and Methods: This randomized clinical trial was carried out on 47 patients with diabetic foot ulcer and vitamin deficiency during four weeks follow-up. The patients were randomly assigned into two groups...

background: hydroxymethylglutaryl‑coenzyme a reductase inhibitors (statins) are antihyperlipidemic drugs with an established efficacy in stabilizing atherosclerotic plaques and preventing atherogenesis and reducing cardiovascular events. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of simvastatin on serum vitamin d status in dyslipidemic patients as vitamin d status has an impact on mo...

multiple risk factors are introduced for multiple sclerosis (ms). recent studies have suggested a possible correlation between vitamin d deficiency and an increase risk of ms. this study was therefore undertaken to compare vitamin d levels in new cases of ms and their relatives as healthy controls. seventy five new diagnosed ms patients and 100 matched healthy controls among their relatives wer...

Dietary supplements that prevent bone loss at the hip and that can be applied safely in the elderly are likely to reduce hip fractures. A daily dietary supplement of 750 mg calcium or 15 microg 25OH vitamin D3 on bone loss at the hip and other sites, bone turnover and calcium-regulating hormones were studied over 4 yr in elderly volunteers using a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled tr...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D status generally varies seasonally with changing solar UVB radiation, time in the sun, amount of skin exposed, and, possibly, diet. The Seasonal D Study was designed to quantify the amplitude and phase of seasonal variation in the serum concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, (25OH)D)) and identify the determinants of the amplitude and phase and those of inter-individual vari...