A comparative study of vitamin d levels in traumatic and non-traumatic patients above 50 years of age.

Aniket Kedawat; A.K. Mathur; Mohit Kumar; Anand Gupta; Anshu Sharma

Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2018

A comparative study of vitamin d levels in traumatic and non-traumatic patients above 50 years of age.

Aniket Kedawat, A. K. Mathur, Mohit Kumar, Anand Gupta, Anshu Sharma

Abstract :

Objective: To compare the Vitamin D levels in an elderly patient with fragility fractures of the proximal femur and non–fracture patients above 50 years of age.

Method: Present study was conducted in the MGMCH Jaipur between November 2015 and October 2016. Our sample size was taken as 100.The subjects were divided into two groups: a traumatic group having patients with fragility fractures of the hip and a non–traumatic group comprising patients coming with musculoskeletal complaints in our OPD. Blood samples were evaluated for vitamin D levels. The Values of Vitamin D obtained are shown in three groups as 0–20ng/ml–deficiency, 21–30ng/ml as insufficiency and>30ng/ml as normal Reference.

Result: 67 of all the 100 subjects i.e. 67% had a deficiency of Vitamin D among them whereas 17% of all the subjects had an insufficiency of Vitamin D. The mean serum levels of Vitamin D among fracture group cases is 17.2 ng/ml compared to control group who had a much higher mean level of 22.6ng/ml.

Conclusion: Even though both study groups had lower levels of Vitamin D, the levels estimated were much less in case of the group in comparison to control group.(P value=0.033)