OBJECTIVE While iron deficiency is regarded as the major cause of nutritional anaemia, changes in vitamins A, B12, C and E, folic acid and riboflavin status have also been linked to its development and control. This paper provides a systematic review of vitamin supplementation trials relating to the control of nutritional anaemia. METHODS A MEDLINE search was used to find reports of vitamin s...

BACKGROUND Recent case reports of scurvy indicate that vitamin C deficiency may be more prevalent that generally assumed. The Low Income Diet and Nutrition Survey (2003-05) of a representative sample of the low-income/materially deprived UK population included a plasma vitamin C measurement. METHODS Adults aged >or=19 years from all countries/regions of UK were screened to identify low-income...

Objective: It has been explored that Vitamin D play role in various non-skeletal disorders including Diabetes Mellitus. The present study was designed with the aim to assess association among control, pre-diabetic and diabetic with vitamin D and association between lipid profile and vitamin D. Materials and Methods: A total of 109 subjects were recruited for the cross-sectional study including...

For many years anaemia has been considered to be part of the syndrome of scurvy. Various investigators have reported finding anaemia in vitamin C deficiency, both in human beings (Parsons & Smallwood, 1935 ; Jennings & Glazebrook, 1938; Vilter & Woolford, 1945 ; Vilter, Woolford & Spies, 1946; Israels, 1943 ; Bronte-Stewart, 1953) and in guinea-pigs (Mettier & Chew, 1932; Aron, 1939; Sigal, 193...

BACKGROUND This cross-sectional population-based study was conducted to elucidate the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, bone turnover marker's variation and its influencing factors among adolescents of Tehran. METHODS Totally 444 middle and high school (53.6 % in high school) students (both girls and boys) were recruited. A short food frequency questionnaire designed to estimate dietary cal...

Background: Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is a rare autoimmune blistering disease of the skin and mucous membranes. Because vitamin D deficiency is associated with many immune disorders, we compared the levels of vitamin D between PV patients and healthy controls. Methods: Vitamin D level of 20 patients with PV was compared with 20 healthy individuals matched for age, gender, hours spent in the sun, ...

Introduction: Vitamin D deficiency and rickets continue to be health problems in developing countries and most of the infants with congenital rickets may present with hypocalcemic seizure.   Case Report: In this article, the report on four infants who presented with hypocalcemic seizures but subsequently were found to have congenital rickets is presented. All of them had hypocalcaemia and low l...

introduction: online medicare is a method in which parts of a medical process, whether its diagnostics, monitoring or the treatment itself will be completed by using online services. at the first step the students were registered for using the system. they participated in estimating depression scale; anxiety scale and clinical interview by online medical care system.  subsequently, the lab exam...

background: exposure to sunlight is the main source of vitamin d production. this study was performed to assess the status of serum vitamin d across the different seasons in geographic region of babol, with latitude of 36 in northern iran. methods: the study – female participants were 15 years old and above selected prospectively according to the inclusion criteria who attended an outpatient cl...

background: vitamin d (vit d) is linked to various conditions including musculoskeletal, metabolic and   cardiopulmonary diseases. however, it is not clear whether correction of vit d deficiency exerts any beneficial effect in patients with pulmonary hypertension. methods: this study was a prospective uncontrolled longitudinal study. patients with pulmonary hypertension and vit d deficiency wer...