TY  - JOUR
TI  - Evaluation of seasonal relationship with vitamin D levels in Van region
AB  - Aim: Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin which is found in certain foods and can besynthesized from its precursors with exposure of sunlight. It is known that serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25-OH Vit D) concentration is the best indicator of Vitamin Dlevel. Main source of Vitamin D is the synthesis to the skin with sunlight exposure. Inour study we investigated the vitamin D levels of patients administered to our hospitalin Van. We aimed to determine any significant difference between age, sex and seasonal differences of the 25-OH vit D levels.Materials and Method: Patients admitted to Yuzuncu Yil University Faculty ofMedicine Dursun Odabas Medical Hospital from 01.01.2013 to 01.01.2014 with 25-OH vit D levels were determined and evaluated respectively.Results: Mean age for males (n=306) was found as 46.65±16.62 and for females(n=1613) as 43.58±15.03. Mean 25-OH vit D in males was found as 18.95±7.93 ng/mL and in females it was found as 14.79±9.42 ng/ml. 25-OH vit D levels of maleswere found significantly higher than that of females (p<0.05). When 25-OH vit Dlevels were analyzed according to season, a mean of 25-OH vit D for the summerseason was found significantly higher than those of the winter or autumn-springmonths (p=0.006). Although Van receives one of the highest amount of sunlight dueto its geographical position, we consider that there exists a deficiency in all agegroups in the society, for all seasons.Conclusions: According to these findings we conclude that both nutritional supportand Vitamin D supplementation is important for recovery of vitamin D deficiency inand around the city of Van.
AU  - alp, hamit hakan
AU  - üçler, rıfkı
AU  - BALAHAROĞLU, Ragıp
AU  - HUYUT, Zübeyir
AU  - ŞEKEROĞLU, Mehmet Ramazan
AU  - ÇOKLUK, erdem
DO  - 10.30565/medalanya.463904
PY  - 2019
JO  - Acta Medica Alanya
VL  - 3
IS  - 2
SN  - 2587-0319
SP  - 124
EP  - 128
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/375683
ER  -