Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency in Jammu Region.

ABSTRACT

Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide health problem. This cross sectional one year study was carried among healthy subjects of both sexes without known, thyroid, renal or hepatic disease or malignancy. The 25(OH)D concentrations were measured by competitive radioimmunoassay. The subjects were classified as vitamin D-deficient, or -sufficient on the basis of 25(OH)D concentrations of <30 ng/mL, 30-100 ng/ mL respectively, according to recent consensus. Total 702 subjects participated in the study female predominated the study. Vitamin D deficiency was prevalent among 76.39% of the total population.Thus the current study sugest high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency exist in Jammu region among healthy population.