Prevalence of Vitamin-D deficiency in Ulcerative Colitis
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2019, Vol 18, Issue 2
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the colon of unclear etiology with an increasing incidence in India. Immunomodulatory effects of vitamin-D has been linked to autoimmune disease such as ulcerative colitis and deficiency of vitamin-D has been found to correlate with severity and activity of disease. In our study we evaluated the prevalence of vitamin-D deficiency in mild,moderate, and severe ulcerative colitis. AIM: To Study the prevalence of vitamin-D level and deficiency in Ulcerative colitis patient at our centre. METHODS: Retrospective data of70 Patients with Ulcerative colitis diagnosed by clinical, endoscopic and histopathologic evaluation from 2015-2017 at our centre were included in the study and they are classified into mild,moderate,severe by Truelove and Wittscriteria.Serum vitamin-D levels were measured in all patients and 70 healthy controls. Patients with mean age of 22-55 years and no comorbid illness such as Diabetes Mellitus,SystemicHypertension,Chronic kidney disease were included in the study.Vitamin-D levels were defined as Sufficient(>30ng/mL), Insufficient(20-30ng/mL), Deficient(<20ng/mL). RESULTS: 70 patients(male=43,female=27) with mean age of 40 years and average symptom duration of 6 months prior to our hospital visit were reassessed during follow up at our hospital. They were classified into mild UC group n=23(32.8%), moderate UC group n=31(44.28%) and severe UC group n=16(22.85%).Among study group 18(78.26%)patients in mild UC 26(83.87%)patients in moderate UC and 14(87.5% )patients in severe UC group were vitamin-D deficient. Among 70 healthy controls serum vitamin-D levels were deficient in 18(25.71%)patients and insufficient in 22(31.42%) patients. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that immunomodulatory property of serum vitamin-D might be a contributory factor to disease activity of ulcerative colitis, however other factors such as infections, poor compliance to treatment and steroid resistance should also be considered.
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Dr. S. B. Malipatil
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