The state of vitamin D in Iraqi patients with parkinson disease

Abstract EN

Background : A role for vitamin D deficiency in Parkinson disease (PD) has recently been suggested.

Objective :: To estimate the state of vitamin D in PD with an age-matched healthy control.

Type of the study: A case control study.

Method : The study randomly comparison of plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH] D) concentrations of collected samples in a clinical neurology department ward / Baghdad teaching hospital / Medical City and Parkinson disease movement disorder clinic.

Participants were registered into the study from October 2015 to October 2016.

We was study serum vitamin D level in 40 consecutive patients with Parkinson disease and 40 age-matched healthy controls after matching for age, sex, race, and geographic location.

Occurrence of suboptimal vitamin D 25(OH) concentrations in Parkinson patients.

Results: Significantly, more patients with PD (62.5%) had deficient vitamin D than did controls (27.5%).

The mean 25(OH) D concentration in PD was (18.09) significantly lower than in the control (24.89)..

Conclusions: This study demonstrates a significantly lower vitamin D level in PD than healthy controls.

These data support a possible role of vitamin D deficiency in PD.