Vitamin D Deficiency Among Saudi Adolescents According to Increased Body Mass Index
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research Professionals - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: Adolescents are specifically at higher risk of hypovitaminosis D due to the increasing tendency to sedentary lifestyle, with excessive TV and computer use as well as unhealthy dietary habits. Objectives: To determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among Saudi Arabian adolescents according to the body mass index, gender, daily sun exposure, daily milk consumption and fish or tuna consumption. Subjects and Method: A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted on 48 Saudi adolescents, aged 11-19 years school-aged males and females in the primary care centers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 24 had normal weight, 24 had increased body weight. Study was carried out during two months from December 2011 to February 2011. 25 hydroxyvitamin D levels were measured in both groups. Results: Over all the prevalence of severe deficiency vitamin D among all study participants was (60.4%), the prevalence moderate deficiency was (39.6%) while the prevalence of the sufficient vitamin D level was (0%). The female had severe deficiency of vitamin D than male with statistically significant difference, P-value was 0.01. There was statistically significant difference in the mean of vitamin D between normal weight and obese adolescents, P-value was 0.034. The adolescents who had history of no sun exposure, history of fish or tuna consumption less than three times /week had severe deficiency vitamin D (less than 10 ng/mL) than those who had history of sun exposure but it was not standard sun exposure, history of fish or tuna consumption three times or more /week with statistically difference, p-values were 0.006 and 0.002 respectively. Conclusion: Vitamin D deficiency highly prevalent in adolescents in and probably in Saudi Arabia which is largely attributed to poor exposure to sun light and poor dietary vitamin D supplementation. Severe vitamin D deficiency is common in female adolescents. Obese adolescents group had very low mean level of vitamin D.
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Abdulrahman Mowafaq Hashim Al-Jifry, Khadijah Abdulrahman Ahmed Ba-Shaikh
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- DOI 10.21276/ijmrp.2018.4.2.009
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