Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent worldwide, and is linked to several major chronic, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Vitamin D deficiency has not been evaluated in dark skinned individuals living in areas of high sun exposure utilizing more reliable mass spectrometry assay techniques. We determined the prevalence of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) deficiency in Afro-Caribbean men on ...

INTRODUCTION We compared the odds of vitamin D deficiency in three chronic diseases: systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and type 2 diabetes (T2DM), adjusting for medications, demographics, and laboratory parameters, common to all three diseases. We also designed multivariate models to determine whether different factors are associated with vitamin D deficiency in dif...

Deficiency of vitamins and a number minerals inevitably leads to disturbances in metabolic processes physiological functions and, as consequence, poor health, decrease the body’s defenses, development vitamin deficiency diseases. Prevention consists ensuring full correspondence between human needs for their intake with food. The entire set necessary person can enter body only if all food groups...

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...

Howell-Jolly bodies in erythroid precursors can be found in the marrow in a variety of diseases. More than 1% in the later erythroblasts is rarely found except in vitamin B(12) or folic acid deficiency states.Giant metamyelocytes are probably always the result of vitamin B(12) or folic acid deficiency. A distinction is drawn between the deficiency of, and therapeutic need for, vitamin B(12) and...

background and aim: iron deficiency anemia is the most common micronutrient deficiency in the world today. it affects the lives of millions of women and children through contributing to poor cognitive development, increased maternal mortality and decreased work capacity.  because of the important role of iron in the physical and cognitive health, and for the universal consideration of eradicati...

Context: The number of meta-analyses published about Helicobacter pylori-associated diseases that clinicians must comprehensively know are scarce. This overview aims to give comprehensive knowledge on the fascinating topic diseases. Methods: search strategy was systematically screen articles evaluating association between H. pylori infection and gynecological reproductive health issues cancers ...

Inherited complement deficiencies are associated with a variety of connective tissue diseases. A family with inherited deficiency of complement factor 2 (C2) is described in which two family members with homozygous C2 deficiency developed cutaneous vasculitis and siccasyndrome. The otherfamily members had heterozygous C2 deficiency and each member had the HLA-A25, B18, DR2 (w15) haplotype. The ...

dieback of trees is a serious problem in many different regions of the world and city authorities are concern about conserving and maintaining the green spaces in the big cites. this study was conducted to evaluate the early dieback and yellowing of sycamore trees (platanus sp.) by using a completely randomized block design (split split plot) in 15 replications (sites) in 2009. the main plot wa...

There is debate on whether vitamin D deficiency is a risk factor for major chronic diseases and premature death or whether observed associations were just confounded by general health status. Here, we review recent results from the Epidemiologische Studie zu Chancen der Verhütung, Früherkennung und optimierten Therapie chronischer Erkrankungen in der älteren Bevölkerung (ESTHER) cohort study an...