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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1227</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.7324/IJCRR.2017.91111</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>The Vitamin D Status in 6-14 Year Old Children Attending Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in South India&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>S.</surname><given-names>Bindusha</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>I.</surname><given-names>Riaz</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>R.</surname><given-names>Sujith K.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kailas</surname><given-names>Lalitha</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>12</day><month>06</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>53</fpage><lpage>58</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Vitamin D insufficiency among healthy children and adolescents is reported to be highly prevalent in the different parts of world.&#13;
Objective: To assess the Vitamin D status in children in the age group of 6-14 years attending a tertiary care teaching institute of South India and to analyze the factors which can contribute to Vitamin D deficiency in these children.&#13;
Methods: Cross-sectional study. 6 __ampersandsignndash; 14 year old children attending the outpatient department were included in the study. Children with co __ampersandsignndash; morbid conditions that affect Vitamin D metabolism and those children on chronic drug treatment and on Vitamin D supplementation were excluded from the study.&#13;
Results: Average age of study population was 8.93__ampersandsignplusmn; 2.02. In the study 48 (52.2%) children among a total of 92 had a normal Vitamin D status while the rest 44 children (47.9%) had insufficient Vitamin D status (25 hydroxy vitamin D __ampersandsignlt; 30 ng/ml). Among these children 21 (22.8%) had sub-optimal vitamin D levels, 19 (20.7%) were deficient, 3 (3.3%) had severe and 1 (1.1%) had very severe deficiency of Vitamin D. The average Vitamin D level among the study population was 31__ampersandsignplusmn;14.13 ng/ml. There was significant statistical association between Vitamin D deficiency and stunting (p=0.003). No statistically significant association was found between outdoor activity, clothing and skin colour with Vitamin D deficiency in this study.&#13;
Conclusions: Vitamin D insufficiency was documented in 47.9% of 6 __ampersandsignndash; 14 year old children and there is a significant association between stunting and Vitamin D deficiency.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Vitamin D status</kwd><kwd> Hypovitaminosis D</kwd><kwd> VDD</kwd><kwd> Stunting</kwd><kwd> Outdoor activity</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
