1Technical Institute, Suwaira-Middle Technical University, Wasit, Iraq
2Health and Medical Technology College, Middle Technical University, Baghdad, Iraq
Several preceding reports have indicated the association between vitamin-D levels and bronchial asthma. Nevertheless, a small number of studies in Iraq had concentrated on vitamin-D serum concentration in a such population. The presented study will examine the main association between bronchial asthma and vitamin-D levels in a randomized asthmatic individuals.
Cross-sectional study included 61 asthmatic patients (26 females and 35 males) who attended Chest Diseases Department in AL-Zahraa Center (Baghdad) for Asthma and Allergy between August 2017 and April 2018, their ages ranged from 6 to 18 years. All subjects were submitted to estimation some of anthropometric measurements including; body mass index (BMI), full medical history, routine laboratory investigations and clinical examination by qualified physician, serum samples of the participants had been analyzed using ELISA for IgE level and ELFA for vitamin-D levels.
Asthmatic participants revealed a significant difference (p<0.05) between levels of vitamin-D according to the genders, both IgE and vitamin-D reflected a significant difference (p< 0.05) among all the four BMI scales that had been used in the recent study and high significant relation of the vitamin-D deficiency with IgE levels among the asthmatic participants (p< 0.001).
Our recent outcomes indicated that there was a vitamin-D deficiency in Iraqi asthmatics patients. Furthermore, deficiency of vitamin-D has been related with elevated abnormal IgE level among asthmatic subjects. So, serum vitamin-D level in asthmatic patients should be surveillance constantly.
Asthma, Immunoglobulin-E, Vitamin-D
