Medical Science
Volume 26, Issue 130, December 2022
A study on the prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency in sickle cell disease amongst pediatric population in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Muazzam Sheriff Maqbul♦, Samaher Gumaan Basalib2, Atheer Khalaf Almutairi2, Rayan Nasser Sarhan2, Layali Muneer Bakhshy2, Mohammed Abdulkhaliq Alharbi2, Safaa Dhaifallah Alotaibi3
1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ibn Sina National
College for Medical Studies, Jeddah 21418, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
2Department of Medicine, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies,
Jeddah 21418, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
3Department of Clinical Nutrition, King Abdulaziz Hospital-Jeddah
21418, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
♦Corresponding author
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ibn Sina National College
for Medical Studies, Jeddah 21418,
KSA
ABSTRACT
The important recognition of this examines changed into to research the
position of Vitamin D in correlation with pediatric SCD in Saudi Arabia.
Vitamin D deficiency is not unusual place in every age and nations and is in
particular related to SCD in kids. Vit D supplementation reduces the chance of
SCD in kids and kids however has little impact on innate immunity after
publicity to contamination and at different concentrations together. The
examiners used online survey questionnaires and randomly disbursed them
thru social media platforms. The online pattern length calculator Raosoft
(Raosoft Inc., Seattle, WA, USA) anticipated pattern sizes. Social science
statistical package model 22.0 (IBM SPSS, IBM Corp., Armonk NY, USA) to
carry out descriptive statistics, Shapiro-Wilk's take a look at evaluates the
ordinary distribution of data. The effects received were calculated for Pearson
Chi Square for importance and are truly tabulated and proven with inside the
figures for every person end result type. The effects received had been
categorized in one of kind sections for the specific dialogue of the reaction fee
with that of P-Value esteem importance. This examines pursuits to observe the
position of Vit D withinside the combat towards SCD and public belief of it
with the in a position fitness government to nicely combat its effects
Keywords: Vitamin D, Sickle Cell Disease, Sickle Cell Anemia, Saudi Arabia,
Pediatric, Prevalence, Deficiency, P-Value, Pearson
Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms549e2671
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i130/ms549e2671
Published: 21 December 2022
