Vitamin D status among the juvenile population: A retrospective study

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Abstract

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Vitamin D deficiency is a clinical problem and recently we have shown that 82.5% of our entire study cohort had inadequate serum 25(OH)D levels. In this study, we analysed serum 25(OH)D levels of juvenile patients admitted to the Burjeel Hospital of VPS Health care in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) from October 2012 to September 2014. Out of a total of 7883 juvenile patients considered in this study, almost 58.1% of females and 43.3% of males in the age group of 1–18 years were found to have low serum 25(OH)D levels (<50 nmol/L). According to the coefficient of variation, females had significantly higher variability among juveniles (63.8%) than males (49.9%). Among the juveniles group of patients, age appears to be an important determining factor for defining vitamin D deficiency.The risk of deficiency (<30 nmol/L) was found to be present in 31.4% of patients in the age group of 10–12 years, followed by 50.4% of patients in the age group of 13–15 years and 52.9% of patients in the age group of 16–18 years. The analysed age groups of females were found to have lower levels of 25(OH)D than males. It is important and perhaps alarming to note that such high rate of vitamin D deficiency is present in the juvenile age.

ISSN

0960-0760

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd

Volume

175

First Page

49

Last Page

54

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

Keywords

25(OH)D, Age, Gender, Juveniles, Nationality, United Arab Emirates, Vitamin D deficiency

Scopus ID

85011045345

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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