Vitamin D Status in Children with Iron Deficiency and/or Anemia

Background iron and vitamin d inadequacy are both essential wellbeing issues, an extra advancement has been the vitamin d extra skeletal role. late collecting proof demonstrates that vitamin d inadequacy is pervasive in people with pallor, we meant to recognize a potential relationship between vitamin d lack and iron insufficiency. materials and methods a case control study was done in erbil, iraq during april 2015 to april 2016, on 160 children aged 1-5 years who referred to raparin hospital. blood test was acquired from every kid for measuring hemoglobin, serum iron and vitamin d level. results the mean estimation of vitamin d was lower 21.3ng/dl in iron deficiency group in contrast with control group and it was essentially lower in gathering that had hemoglobin of under 11gm/dl (19.7ng/dl) in contrast with those with more than 11gm/dl. there was a direct relationship between serum iron, hemoglobin and vitamin d levels (r=0.520, p<0.05 and r=0.418, p<0.05 for serum iron and hemoglobin respectively). conclusion there was significant moderate positive correlation between vitamin d and serum iron level.