High Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency among Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Author(s) -
Daniel Caviezel,
Silvia Maissen,
Jan Hendrik Niess,
Caroline Kiss,
Petr Hrúz
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
inflammatory intestinal diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2296-9403
pISSN - 2296-9365
DOI - 10.1159/000489010
Subject(s) - medicine , gastroenterology , inflammatory bowel disease , irritable bowel syndrome , vitamin d and neurology , ulcerative colitis , vitamin d deficiency , calprotectin , faecal calprotectin , crohn's disease , endocrinology , disease
Vitamin D is a hormone with immunomodulatory properties. Vitamin D deficiency has been reported for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). In this cross-sectional study, 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25-OH-D3) levels in patients with IBD were compared to those in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
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