Study of Vitamin D Levels among Patients visiting a tertiary care centre

Abstract

Vitamin D deficiency is a prevalent nutritional insufficiency in India, yet it often goes undetected and untreated. The insufficiency had an impact on individuals regardless of their gender, age, sex, ethnicity, or locality. Currently, there is significant research being
conducted on vitamin D deficiency due to its involvement in different illnesses, in addition to its well-known effects on the skeletal system. In adults, a long-term lack of vitamin D leads to the development of osteomalacia, osteoporosis, and muscle weakness. This is a crosssectional study, carried out among the 210 subjects of both the sexes aged 18 years and above at Orthopaedics department, who came for the estimation of serum Vitamin D3. Our study shows 42.85 % subjects had Severe deficiency, 28.57 % had deficiency, 7.14 % subjects were Insufficient , and 21.42 % had normal Vitamin D3 levels.This study will act as a guideline for conducting further studies on a larger scale to get a wider picture of prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in our country.