Lack of Vitamin D in Iraqi Children With Asthma

Zainab A.Razak Al-Sharifi¹, Haider Abd Jabbar Al-Ammar²,  Halla G. Mahmood¹  Kismat Mohamed Turki¹ and Ibrahim Isam Al-Karkhi³

¹Department of Biochemistry – Collage of medicine –University of Baghdad, Baghdad- Iraq.

²Department of Biochemistry – Collage of medicine –University of Al kadysia-, Al Kadysia-Iraq.

³Memorial University of Newfoundland, NL, Canada.

Corresponding Author E-mail: dr.alkarkhi@gmail.com

Abstract: Vitamins assumes as part of pathology genetic factor in asthma because of the intense immunomodulatory influence following to cell of the distinctive immunities. Additionally it decreases the danger of breathing virus-related to the diseases that were critical originators to breathing difficulties (asthma) intensifications. Additionally, it strengthens the mitigating activity of the steroids that were observed as the best asthma.controller. Finding the relationship between the level and the presence of Vitamin D lack and the asthma in Iraqi kids. 50 asthmatic kids where used and compared to 50 healthy kids (controls). Both are exposed to medication, examinations in addition to investigations in laboratory and clinically, estimation of calcium, alkaline phosphate in serum was also determined through the levels of 25-OH-D. An important association among the deficiency of vitamin D and seriousness of asthmatic kids, in addition to that it was found that there was insignificant correlation among exposure to sun and the level of 25-OH-D. The deficiency of Vitamin D considered being very common in Iraqi the asthmatic children .Low levels of vitamin D in serum usually connected to elevation in asthma seriousness.

Keywords: Asthma; Iraqi Children; Vitamin D level

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