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- Vitamin D Deficiency among Patients Presenting to Outpatient Department of Medicine of a Tertiary Care Centre: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
- Vitamin D deficiency in Nepalese hospitals
- Lower Vitamin D levels in hospital settings
- Many countries have low vitamin D levels
- Should not expect the hospitals to give Vitamin D to everyone - they would lose a huge amount of income
- There have been
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Vitamin D Deficiency among Patients Presenting to Outpatient Department of Medicine of a Tertiary Care Centre: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc. 2022 May 5;60(249):465-468. doi: 10.31729/jnma.7452.
Adhyashree Karki 1, Shreeju Vaidhya 2, Dipak Kunwar 3, Rajyashree Kunwar 4Introduction: Vitamin D deficiency is a global health concern with over billions of people worldwide being vitamin D deficient or insufficient. Many epidemiological studies have reported cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases and neoplastic diseases to be associated with vitamin D levels. This study aims to find out the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in patients presenting to the outpatient Department of Medicine of a tertiary care center.
Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study done among 362 patients in the outpatient Department of Medicine of a tertiary care center between May, 2016 and August, 2016. Ethical Approval was taken from Institutional Review Committee (Reference number: 21082015). Convenience sampling was done. Informed consent was obtained and data were collected. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Science version 25.0. Point estimate at a 95% Confidence Interval was calculated along with frequency and percentages for binary data.
Results: Out of 362 patients, vitamin D deficiency was found in 215 (59.39%) (54.33-64.45 at 95% Confidence Interval) patients.
Conclusions: The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency was found to be lower to the other studies done in in similar settings. Physicians should be aware of the growing prevalence of vitamin D deficiency.
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Vitamin D deficiency in Nepalese hospitals
<20 ng This out-patient
cross-sectional study59.4% Previous cross-sectional study 73.6% Previous retrospective study 91.2%
Lower Vitamin D levels in hospital settings
People going to a hospital usually have health problems
Many health problems are either created by or result in low vitamin D
So, hospital vitamin D levels are often lower than the levels in the healthy public
Many countries have low vitamin D levels
- Vitamin D levels from lowest to highest: Middle East, China. India, S EU. N EU – Dec 2019
< 20 ng:: Middle East 90%, China 72%, India 56% - Extreme Vitamin D deficiency in most low middle income countries which had studies – Jan 2018
- < 10 ng: Mongolia,
- Vitamin D level: 27 ng if low pollution, 12 ng if high pollution (Delhi children) – June 2018
- Vitamin D levels are lower than 20 ng in half of the world – Dec 2017
- Vitamin D is low in Europe – 40 percent have less than 20 ng – ODEN Oct 2018
- Most Chinese have less than 20 ng level of Vitamin D - meta-analysis Aug 2021
- Percent of population with less than 20 ng of vitamin D following chart was made by VitaminDWiki in 2012
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Should not expect the hospitals to give Vitamin D to everyone - they would lose a huge amount of income
There have been
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