VITAMIN D STATUS IN PATIENTS WITH CARDIOMETABOLIC SYNDROME
Keywords:
Cardiometabolic, syndrome, 25-hydroxy, vitamin D, waist, circumferenceAbstract
Objective: To compare the vitamin D status in patients of cardiometabolic syndrome (CMS) with that of normal individuals
in our local population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan.
Material and Methods: Fifty adult patients of CMS and fifty controls were selected in Endocrinology Unit, Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC), Peshawar by convenient consecutive sampling. Duration of study was from January 2012 to April 2012. Age, sex, height, weight, waist circumference, B.P (blood pressure) were measured. Fasting blood sugar (FBS) and lipid profile were assessed by using venous blood. Vitamin D status (25-hydroxyvitamin D) of patients and controls was analyzed by ELISA (Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay). Data was analyzed using independent t-test, chi-square test and Levene’s test for equality of variance. P value was calculated by Fischer exact test.
Results: 42% had low vitamin D levels in the cases whereas 4% of controls had hypovitaminosis D. The odds ratio (OR) was 0.139 with confidence interval of .037 - .530 and P value < 0.01 which showed that vitamin D was a protective factor for the development of CMS.
Conclusion: It is concluded that in our local population, there is significant prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in patients
suffering from CMS.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
All articles published in the Journal of Medical Sciences (JMS) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0). Under the CC BY 4.0 license, author(s) retain the ownership of the copyright publishing rights without restrictions for their content, and allow others to copy, use, print, share, modify, and distribute the content of the article even for commercial purposes as long as the original authors and the journal are properly cited. No permission is required from the author/s or the publishers for this purpose. Appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article. The corresponding author has the right to grant on behalf of all authors, a worldwide license to JMS and its licensees in all forms, formats, and media (whether known now or created in the future), The corresponding author must certify and warrant the authorship and proprietorship and should declare that he/she has not granted or assigned any of the article’s rights to any other person or body.
The corresponding author must compensate the journal for any costs, expenses, or damages that the JMS may incur as a result of any breach of these warranties including any intentional or unintentional errors, omissions, copyright issues, or plagiarism. The editorial office must be notified upon submission if an article contains materials like text, pictures, tables, or graphs from other copyrighted sources. The JMS reserves the right to remove any images, figures, tables, or other content, from any article, whether before or after publication, if concerns are raised about copyright, license, or permissions and the authors are unable to provide documentation confirming that appropriate permissions were obtained for publication of the content in question.
