Prevalence and Correlates of Vitamin D Inadequacy in a Sample of Iraqi People

Background: Vitamin D had been identified as a common metabolic/endocrine abnormality. Middle\r\nEast countries had a very high rate of vitamin D inadequacy, vitamin D deficiency was associated with\r\nnon-communicable and infectious diseases.\r\nObjective : To identify the prevalence of Vitamin D level and its correlates among Iraqi people in\r\nAl-Hilla city-Babylon province\r\nMethods :. A cross-sectional study was conducted on a convenient sample of individuals from all age\r\ngroups and both genders who attended eight primary health care centers and individuals in Al-Hilla\r\ncity\\Babylon province\\Iraq, the study period was started from May through October , 2019. A\r\npretested questionnaire was used for data collection , the questionnaire included information regarding\r\nsocio demographic characteristics of participants and their history of chronic diseases. The following\r\nmeasurements were done: level of serum vitamin D , blood pressure, blood sugar , body weight and\r\nweight and the serum of vitamin D .\r\nResults: The sample included 188 participants their mean age was 64.8 ± 17.25 years.The female to\r\nmale ratio 1.7:1, More than half of participants (56%) resident in urban areas . Vitamin D mean level\r\nwas (20.7 ng/mL ± 14.9 SD). The vast majority (80%) of the sample have vitamin D inadequacy in\r\nwhich (66% have deficiency and 14% have insufficiency), while 37 (20%) of the sample have vitamin\r\nD adequacy.\r\nA significant inverse relationship between vitamin D serum level and hypertension, type two\r\ndiabetes mellitus, increase body weight.\r\nConclusion: there was a high prevalence of vitamin D inadequacy among Iraqi people mainly in\r\nfemales, a significant association between low vitamin D level and hypertension, type two diabetes\r\nmellitus, and obesity.