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Bratislava Medical Journal Vol.121, No.9, p.675–679,2020

Title: 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels are low but not associated with disease activity in chronic spontaneous urticaria and depression
Author: E. Vurgun, B. Memet, E. Kocaturk, G. Guntas

Abstract: AIM: To evaluate vitamin D levels in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU), depression and both of them, thus to find out whether vitamin D may be a common causative factor of CSU and depression.
METHODS: Thirty patients with CSU, 30 patients with depression, 30 patients with both CSU and depression and 30 healthy volunteers as control group were involved in the study. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels of these groups were measured and compared. Correlations between 25(OH)D levels and the activity of CSU and depression were analyzed.
RESULTS: Healthy controls’ 25(OH)D levels (17.2±8.8 ng/mL) were higher than patients with CSU (9.1±5.1 ng/mL), depression (8.9±6.1 ng/mL) and CSU with depression (7.7±4.7 ng/mL) (p<0.001, p<0.001 and p<0.001, respectively). There were no differences in 25(OH)D levels between CSU patients with and without depression, between depression patients and CSU patients with and without depression (p=0.43, p=0.82 and p=0.92, respectively). There were no correlations between 25(OH)D levels and the activity of CSU or depression (p=0.99 and p=0.76, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Lower 25(OH)D levels in CSU and/or depression may appear as a secondary phenomenon, which means being result of these diseases rather than the cause (Tab. 1, Fig. 2, Ref. 41). Text in PDF
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Keywords: vitamin D, vitamin D deficiency, chronic urticaria, depression
Published online: 21-Aug-2020
Year: 2020, Volume: 121, Issue: 9 Page From: 675, Page To: 679
doi:10.4149/BLL_2020_109


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