Quality of Diet Pattern, Sun Exposure, and Vitamin D Statues Among Kurdish Children and Adolescent/Kurdistan Region/Iraq
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- 10.2991/ahsr.k.211012.019How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- vitamin D, sun exposure, diet pattern, children and adolescents
- Abstract
Background and Aim: Vitamin D has revealed huge attention in the scientific and public health community, and over the world around one billion persons in diverse ages and races now being either inadequate or deficient. The study aim is to assess vitamin D status, sun exposure and diet pattern of children and adolescent in Erbil and Soran city/Iraqi Kurdistan. Methods: cross sectional study was conducted on 200 children and adolescents in out-patients laboratories in Soran and Erbil city during period of February to June 2021. Data were collected through using questionnaire interview and result of serum 25(OH) D. ethical approval was taken from Erbil polytechnic university /hawler medical institute/scientific committee. Also data were analyzed through using SPSS version 19. Results: (30.5%) of samples were in deficient level of serum 25(OH) D (X±SD = 20.280± 13.256), (38.5%) exposed to sun just 5-15 minutes, 77% have not taken vitamin D supplements, 84 (42%) of participants had poor diet pattern. There is significant association between serums 25(OH) D with sun exposure and diet pattern at p-value < 0.001. Conclusion: overall most of Kurdish children and adolescent had vitamin D deficiency due to poor sun exposure, poor diet pattern and most of them did not take vitamin d as supplements.
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TY - CONF AU - Kaify Qadir AU - Hanaa Saadi AU - Hoger Sedeeq AU - Hamdia Ahmad PY - 2021 DA - 2021/10/12 TI - Quality of Diet Pattern, Sun Exposure, and Vitamin D Statues Among Kurdish Children and Adolescent/Kurdistan Region/Iraq BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Ninevah Conference on Medical Sciences (INCMS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 109 EP - 116 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.211012.019 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.211012.019 ID - Qadir2021 ER -