ArticleJournal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma
Vitamin D deficiency among pediatric osteoarticular tuberculosis patients.
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- Association of variant vitamin statuses and tuberculosis development: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Vitamin D deficiency among apparently healthy children and children with common medical illnesses in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Review
- The association between vitamin D status and infectious diseases of the respiratory system in infancy and childhood.Hormones (Athens, Greece) · 2019Review
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Abstract
objectivesWe prospectively investigated serum 25 hydroxy vitamin D concentrations in children suffering from osteoarticular tuberculosis. The age or sex correlation to vitamin D levels in affected subjects was also calculated.
methodsTwenty five untreated children with osteoarticular tuberculosis were taken as cases along with equal number of age and sex matched 'healthy' controls. The following laboratory references for defining the vitamin D status were used (<30 nmol/L = deficiency; 30-75 nmol/L = insufficiency; > 75 nmol/L = sufficiency). The cases were further grouped based on gender differences and age (<5 or >5 years).
resultsOut of 25 cases, there were 14 (56%) with deficiency of vitamin D. In 'apparently' healthy subjects, all 25 controls (100%) had hypovitaminosis D. The osteoarticular tuberculosis patients had significant lower levels of vitamin D when compared with their healthy peers irrespective of gender or age differences.
conclusionsThe osteoarticular tuberculosis cases had low serum vitamin D levels compared to healthy controls. The low vitamin D levels were persistent irrespective of gender and age in osteoarticular tuberculosis children. There was widespread vitamin D insufficiency in apparently healthy controls.
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