Serum concentration of vitamin D in Alopecia areata - A hospital based observational study
Keywords:
Alopecia areata, Vitamin D, Insufficiency, DeficiencyAbstract
Aim and objectives: To investigate serum level of vitamin D in AA and to assess any correlation between serum vitamin D level and AA.
Materials and methods: Place of study - OPD of Dept. of Dermatology, Sikkim Manipal Institute Of Medical Sciences, Gangtok, Sikkim.
Duration of study: From August 2019 to December 2020. Approval for study was taken from Institutional Ethical committee.
Sample size: 50 patients were randomly selected in this study.
Results: In our study, we have recruited 50 patients of alopecia areata. Out of 50 patients, 33 were males and 17 females). The index study showed most of the patients was in the age group 20-30 years with 23 patients, followed by 30-40 years with 17 patients. Most of the study subjects, 17 were college student, and no of employee were 15.27 patients had duration of lesions between < 1 month, 13 patients had duration between 1-2 months. Out of 50 patients 44 had path (es) and 2 patients had alopecia totalis. Mean serum concentration of vitamin D according to gender (P - value 0.129).
Limitations: The main limitation was less sample size of our study.
Conclusion: we did not observe any significant correlation of serum level of vitamin D in AA.
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