Vitamin D Status Among Women Living in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region and HPLC-MS Analysis for MeasuringVitamin D in Organic and Non-organic Eggs

Vitamin d is a suparstar of our health. sun exposure is the major source of vitamin d for most humans, and the primary cause of vitamin d deficiency in women living in kurdistan is the lack of appreciation of the sun. very few foods naturally known to contain vitamin d, and these foods are not a part of these women daily meals. in the first section of this study, the measured serum 25(oh), d levels for 1128 women and girls were considered. over 79% of these results were below the standard range value. in the second part of this study, we use analysis with the hight performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (hplc-ms) method to elucidate the ratio of vitamin d between commercially produced eggs (non-organic eggs) and vitamin d in eggs produced by hens raised on pasture (organic eggs). data showed vitamin d content in organic eggs 7.66 fold higher than non-organic eggs. it is clear that attention should pay to the vitamin d status of women in kurdistan.