Vitamin D Deficiency and Its Association with Thyroid Disease | Zendy

Amal M.H. Mackawy | Zendy; Bushra Mohammed Al-Ayed | Zendy; Bashayer Mater Al-Rashidi | Zendy

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Vitamin D Deficiency and Its Association with Thyroid Disease

Author(s) -

Amal M.H. Mackawy,

Bushra Mohammed Al-Ayed,

Bashayer Mater Al-Rashidi

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

international journal of health sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1658-7774

pISSN - 1658-3639

DOI - 10.12816/0006054

Subject(s) - medicine , vitamin d and neurology , vitamin d deficiency , hypocalcaemia , endocrinology , thyroid , hypovitaminosis , thyroid disease , calcium , hormone , incidence (geometry) , physics , optics

Vitamin D deficiency is a global health problem, its role as an immune modulator has been recently emphasized. The evidence is increasingly pointing towards vitamin D significant role in reducing the incidence of autoimmune diseases. However, at this time the research on its role in autoimmune and thyroid disease is not conclusive. We aimed to examine the relationship between hypothyroidism and vitamin D deficiency and to clarify the relation between serum calcium levels with hypothyroid disease.

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