Exploration of Vitamin D deficiency in school aged children of the local area of District Mardan | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Nutrition | ||
| Article 5, Volume 39, Issue 3 - Serial Number 1, September 2024, Pages 60-71 PDF (627.1 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/enj.2024.381064 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Shah1 Usman1; Sayyed Ayaf Shah1; Maryam Bibi2,2; Shakir Ullah2; , Hira Waqas33; Dr Yasir Zubair44; , Dr Muneeba Zubair55; Adam Gohar6,6; , Muhammad Khan Rahman77; Dr Eidul Ahad8,8; Ullah9 Zeeshan9; Abbas Khan9; Sadiq Ur Rahman9; , Usman Saeed1010 | ||
| 11Department of Health Sciences Khyber Medical University Peshawar Pakistan | ||
| 22Department of Microbiology Abasyn University Peshawar Pakistan | ||
| 33 Department of Dentistry Gandhara University Peshawar, Pakistan | ||
| 44Department Public Health Health services academy Islamabad Pakistan | ||
| 55Department of Medicine Northwest School of medicine Peshawar Pakistan | ||
| 66Department of Microbiology Bacha khan University Charsadda Pakistan, | ||
| 77 Department of Microbiology University of Swat, Pakistan, | ||
| 88 Department of Dentistry Spinghar Medical University Afghanistan | ||
| 99 Department of Nutrition University of Peshawar Pakistan | ||
| 1010Department of Zoology GC University Lahore Pakistan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACT Malnutrition contributes directly or indirectly to more than 60% of 10 million child deaths each year. Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide phenomenon. Therefore the study aims to explore gender and age-wise deficiency of vitamin D in school-aged children of the local area of District Mardan. A total of 400 children between the ages of 4-15 years were studied. A systematic random sampling technique was applied for sample collection. In the current research work, 400 samples were estimated for the exploration of vitamin D deficiency in school-aged children. A high percentage of Vitamin D deficiency was found in males 45(22.5%) while a very low ratio was found in females 25(12.5%). The ratios of insufficiency in the school-aged children were also high in male 55(27.5%) children as compared to female 25(12.5%) students were respectively. Aged-wise exploration of vitamin D deficiency shows that very low frequency was showed in low aged group 4-7 years(20) 10%, similarly in 8-11 years the frequency of vitamin D deficiency was 30(15%) while in the aged group 12-15 years the frequency of Vitamin D deficiency were found very high 40(20%). Residency-wise results show that the frequency ratio of urban children was high 40(20%) as compared to rural area children 30(15%) respectively. This emerging health problem of Vitamin D deficiency and its connection with the academic career of school-going children has long-term health impacts. The present study highlighted the association between vitamin D deficiency in different age groups, genders, and socioeconomic status-wise exploration of vitamin D deficiency. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Keywords; Vitamins D. Health. Deficiency .Exploration | ||
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