Abstract
CONTEXT:
High prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) has been reported in the pediatric population from the different parts of the country. However, there is a lacuna of data on the Vitamin D status of children from the north-eastern part of the country.
AIMS:
The aim of this study is to assess the serum Vitamin D level and also to find out the prevalence of VDD among children and adolescents in Agartala, a major city in North-east India.
SETTINGS AND DESIGN:
Cross-sectional descriptive study.
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
The serum 25 (OH) D levels of 258 children from age 1 to below 18 years, attending the outpatient clinics of the hospital were analyzed from June 2020 to June 2021.
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED:
Data being nonparametric was presented as median and inter quartile range. The group differences were computed by the Mann–Whitney
U
-test.
P
< 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
RESULTS:
Sixty percentage of the study population had insufficient levels of Vitamin D, with girls having significantly lower levels of serum Vitamin D. Only 27% of adolescents had optimum level of serum Vitamin D.
CONCLUSION:
A high prevalence of Vitamin D insufficiency and VDD was found among the children living in the urban and sub urban areas of Agartala city in North-east India.
Recommended Citation
Jamatia, Elvia; Roy, Sankar; Das, Arpita; Dewan, Portia; and Debnath, Tapan
(2022)
"Vitamin D status of children at a tertiary care hospital of Agartala, North-east India A cross-sectional study,"
Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU: Vol. 15:
Iss.
3, Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4103/kleuhsj.kleuhsj_135_22
Available at:
https://kleijhsbr.researchcommons.org/journal/vol15/iss3/7
Pages
214
Last Page
218
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