Abstract

VITAMIN D ASSESSMENT IN HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS IN RELATION WITH GENDER LIVING IN URBAN AND RURAL, NORTH AREA OF HARYANA

Rajinder Prasad*, Suvarna Prasad and Ashutosh Sharma

ABSTRACT

Vitamin D deficiency, low levels of serum 25(OH) D is widespread throughout the world irrespective of age, gender, latitude of residence and dietary practices. In India, studies from different parts of the country have reported a prevalence of vitamin D deficiency varying from 30% to 100%. The normal reference range to define vitamin D deficiency was 30-100 ng/ml to diagnose vitamin D deficiency among different age groups in adolescents, and healthy professionals. The factors affecting vitamin D deficiency include variation in sun exposure due to latitude, season, time of day, atmospheric components, clothing, sunscreen use and skin pigmentation, as well as age, obesity and the incidence of several chronic illnesses. The present study was planned to “Assessment of vitamin D status in healthy volunteers and to correlate the levels of vitamin D in relation with gender living in urban and rural north area of Haryana. The study was conducted in the Department of Biochemistry, M. M. Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana, Ambala (Haryana). The study population, two hundred (200) healthy volunteers were derived from employees and students aged 20-60 years of either sex. In our study 57.5% of total subjects had vitamin D deficiency. The subjects used to daily sun light exposure were 71(35.5%) out of 200, among 71 there was 61(71.8%) had normal vitamin D and in 10(8.7%) had abnormal level of vitamin D had low prevalence as compare to other subjects who got, less amount of sun light exposure and the association of vitamin D level was found statistically highly significant (p=0.000) with sun light exposure and also found that the association of vitamin D level was found statistically highly significant (p=0.000) with rural and urban of all study subjects.

Keywords: Vitamin D, sun-exposure, urban and rural.