Assessment of vitamin D levels in children that applied to pediatrics outpatient clinics by age, gender and seasons

Background and objective: This study purposes to designate the profile of 25-hydroxy vitamin D [25(OH)D] by evaluating levels patients attending pediatric outpatient clinics at State Hospital in Şırnak, second city Turkey terms fertility. Methods: In study, 4753 hospitalized Şırnak were enrolled, their retrospectively examined. Throughout research, concentrations assessed based on patients’ gender, age, seasonal variations. Serum categorized as severe deficiency <12 ng/ml, mild-moderate 12–20 normal 20–100 ng/ml. Results: The analyzed data 2107 males 2646 females. For boys girls, median serum 18.23 ng/ml 22.42 respectively. There was a statistically significant difference between different age groups both genders (p<0.01). Vitamin lowest winter highest summer for genders, variations observed across seasons level found be 25.59 aged 0–5 years (n=2,272), 18.16 6–12 (n=1,580), 13.40 13–17 (n=901). Conclusions: this state hospital had shortages insufficiency. low are believed attributed synthesis’s lack due inadequate wintertime sunshine, outside activities kids area, or D-deficient foods. As result these findings, there is an increased need supportive therapy.