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Bratislava Medical Journal Vol.125, No.8, p.508–512, 2024

Title: Vitamin D in blood serum and chronic pancreatitis
Author: Marie PRECECHTELOVA, Petr DITE, Dana BUCKOVA, Martina BOJKOVA, Bohuslav KIANICKA, David SOLIL, Jiri DOLINA
Abstract: Patients with chronic pancreatitis are at risk of developing malabsorption and malnutrition. Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency is accompanied by decreased serum micronutrient levels and low vitamin D levels are a frequent finding in up to 60–80% of patients. The aim of our prospective study was to investigate vitamin D in the blood serum of subjects with chronic pancreatitis with the possibility of influencing the reduced vitamin D levels with supplementation therapy.
MATERIAL AND METHODOLOGY: Fifty patients with chronic pancreatitis and 20 subjects in the control group without gastrointestinal tract diseases, including pancreatic disease, were examined. The vitamin D level in blood serum was determined. The results were evaluated according to the age distribution of subjects with pancreatic disease and according to gender. Patients with low vitamin D levels were treated for 24 weeks with a dose of 1.500.000 IU of vitamin D3 per day, and then blood serum vitamin D levels were determined.
RESULTS: In people with chronic pancreatitis, vitamin D levels were statistically significantly reduced compared to the control group. There was no statistically significant relationship of vitamin D with gender and age. Supplementation with vitamin D3 achieved an adjustment of vitamin D level to the level of the control group.
CONCLUSION: Blood serum vitamin D levels are significantly reduced in people with chronic pancreatitis. Its correction by oral vitamin D supplementation was effective. Whether this adjustment of levels will be effective also in terms of e.g. beneficial effect on fibrogenesis will require further representative studies, because the limitation of the interpretation of the results of our study is the smaller number of subjects with chronic pancreatitis (Tab. 4, Ref. 29).
Keywords: chronic pancreatitis, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, pancreatic fibrosis, vitamin D, vitamin D supplementation
Published online: 17-Jun-2024
Year: 2024, Volume: 125, Issue: 8 Page From: 508, Page To: 512
doi:10.4149/BLL_2024_79


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