%0 Journal Article
%T Vitamin D: Level of Vitamin D3 in AFB Positive PTB Patients in Initial Diagnostic Phase
%A Anwar Ali Jamali
%A Jawaid Hussain Lighari
%A Shamasddin Shaikh
%A Ghulam Mustafa Jamali
%A Bhojo Mal Tanwani
%A Muhammad Aslam Channa
%A Ameer Ali Jamali
%A Muhammad Ali Suhail
%J Journal of Tuberculosis Research
%P 251-269
%@ 2329-8448
%D 2018
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/jtr.2018.64023
%X <strong>Background:</strong> A relationship among vitamin D and pulmonary tuberculosis. <strong>Objective:</strong> To conclude the occurrence of Vitamin D insufficiency in subjects suffering from pulmonary TB. <strong>Design:</strong> This was a cross sectional study. <strong>Setting:</strong> Current study was performed at department of medicine, Peoples Medical College Hospital Nawabshah starting from January 2017 to December 2017. <strong>Samples:</strong> <strong>385</strong> AFB positive subjects of pulmonary tuberculosis after achieving the criteria of selection were recruited. <strong>Material and Methods:</strong> After a brief discussion, the patients were characterized for variable evaluation such as age, gender, sputum AFB and duration of disease and presence of low vitamin D levels. Sputum AFB criterion was used for Data collection. Fasting blood samples were collected for analysis of vitamin D levels in all subjects of AFB positive pulmonary tuberculosis. <strong>Results:</strong> In <strong>385</strong> diagnosed patients with smear positive PTB, 273 (70.9%) males and 112 (29.1%) were female. Vitamin D levels were within normal or sufficient range in 134 (34.8%), below normal range in 251 (65.2%) cases (insufficient in 09.56% (24/251) and deficient in 90.43% (227/251) cases). <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Decreased levels of vitamin D were common in subjects with AFB smear Positive PTB cases.
%K Pulmonary Tuberculosis
%K Vitamin D
%K Vitamin D Insufficiency
%K 25-Hydroxyvitamin D
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=87784