Vitamin D Deficiency in Female Reproductive age in kerman 2016

Introduction: Vitamin D has essential role in bone strength, safety system adjusting, as well as the prevention of diabetes, cancer, arthrosclerosis, heart diseases and depression. Therefore, regarding to importance of vitamin D in health and by considering this fact that vitamin D defic iency causes some irreparable results, this study aimed to determine thefrequency of vitamin D deficiency among women of reproductive age in Kerman city during 2017. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2017 on women of reproductive age in Kerman city for determining the frequency of vitamin D deficiency. The participations who were women of reproductive age, were selected non-probability among referedpations to Kerman Besaat Clinic by regarding to four separate distinc of Kerman and their residence, involve the city’s center and margin of Kerman. After taking Informed consent,Specifications of participants include of age, occupation, residence, marital status, midwifery history (number of pregnancies), Brest feeding history and pregnancy status atsampling time, was recorded. In this stage the women with liver or kidney disease, endocrine disorder, and also those with a history of taking anticonvulsant medication andcorticosteroids were excluded. Serum levels of 25OHD was determined using an ECL assay after blood sampling and transfer samples to the centrifuge lab. Results: 250 participants were investigated whit average 30.87±8.02 years old. The average serum levels of vitamin D by using the 25OHD variable was calculated 18.75±16.05 ng/ml in overall. The prevalence severe (less than 10 ng/ml), moderate (between 10 and 30 ng/ml) and normal (more than 30 ng/ml) vitamin D deficiency was calculated 31.2, 51.6 and 17.2 percent, respectively. According to this finding, in general 2.8 participants suffer from vitamin D deficiency. Also, the statistical analysis shows that the relationship between deficiency of vitamin D and any variables include of age, occupation, residence, marital status and midwifery history wasn’t statistically significant. Conclusion: According to this finding high vitamin D deficiency prevalence still remain an important attainable issue. It seems the specific coverage of Muslim women, women s use of sunscreen that hurdle obtaining sun light by skin and less expose to sun because of less being outdoor are some reasons of high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency trough women. Therefore, the intervention plan seems essential to avoid complications of vitamin D deficiency such as medication treatment and establishing nationally-mandated food fortification programs to prevalent the complications of deficiency and enhance the intake of vitamin D.

Keywords:

Vitamin D Deficiency , iFemale Reproductive age