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Acta médica Grupo Ángeles

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Abstract

ARELLANO AGUILAR, Gregorio; MARIN Y SANTILLAN, Ernesto; JONGUITUD DIAZ, Dolores Vanessa  and  DOMINGUEZ CARRILLO, Luis Gerardo. Prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in a high socioeconomic population and its association with different nosological entities. Acta méd. Grupo Ángeles [online]. 2020, vol.18, n.1, pp.11-16.  Epub Mar 22, 2022. ISSN 1870-7203.  https://doi.org/10.35366/91994.

Introduction:

Vitamin D is considered a prohormone with pleiotropic effects, its deficiency has high prevalence; related not only with rickets and osteomalacia, but with a diabetes increased risk, cardiovascular, oncological, infectious and autoimmune diseases. To value in an observational, retrospective cohort study, vitamin D levels in a high socio-economic population and its association with established clinical diagnoses.

Material and methods:

patients between 20 and 80 years old who underwent quantification of vitamin D 25-OH by the chemiluminescence, it deficiency was considered when the quantificacation was lower than 30.0 ng/mL; correlating with diagnoses established in patients.

Results:

Universe of 90 patients, 60 the female gender (66.6%); reduction of normal values in 57 cases (63.3%) with mean and SD of de 22.8 ± 5.6 ng/mL; observing association with diabetes (OR = 1.19), osteoporosis (OR = 0.95), arterial hypertension (OR = 0.58), hypercholesterolemia (OR = 0.28), chronic kidney disease (OR = 0.20), and others entities.

Conclusions:

The levels of 25-OH Vitamin D were below normal in 2/3 of the studied sample, associated with several diseases, in this study only with diabetes mellitus is found as a risk factor, the association with the rest of the entities studied is not conclusive.

Keywords : Vitamin D; deficiency; related diseases.

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