Volume : IX, Issue : III, March - 2020

VITAMIN D STATUS IN VARYING AGE GROUPS OF BOTH THE GENDERS.

Jayakrishnan. S, Jayanthi Bai. N

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Vitamin D deficiency is widespread in all age groups worldwide. Majority of the population is unaware of this and also the role of Vitamin D in health care aspect apart from skeletal metabolism and calcium homeostasis. Vitamin D levels measured in 3320 subjects. Both males and females were included. Sixty-five percentage of subjects were deficient in Vitamin D 22.9% insufficient and only 12.5% had sufficient levels of Vitamin D. Older people had higher Vitamin D levels compared to adolescents and younger children. The overall analysis points out higher Vitamin D levels in females of older age groups.

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VITAMIN D STATUS IN VARYING AGE GROUPS OF BOTH THE GENDERS., JAYAKRISHNAN.S, JAYANTHI BAI.N GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-9 | Issue-3 | March-2020

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