Open AccessSerum vitamin A, E & C in cortical & nuclear cataract patients.
Author(s) -
Ghazala,
Jamil Ahmed Siddiqui,
Syed Naqeeb Ali,
Syed Asif Ali,
Ghulam Serwar Shaikh,
Anila Qureshi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2021.28.08.6065
Subject(s) - medicine , cataracts , vitamin e , vitamin c , vitamin , prospective cohort study , antioxidant , physiology , ophthalmology , biochemistry , chemistry
Objective: To assess the status of antioxidant vitamins (A, E & C) in cortical and nuclear cataracts patients. Study Design: Prospective Comparative study. Setting: Al-Ibrahim Eye Hospital and Biochemistry Department of Al-Tibri Medical College, Karachi. Period: Sept 2016 to Aug 2017. Material & Methods: A non-probability random sampling technique was used on 80 pre-diagnosed cataracts (cortical and nuclear) patients, and 40 control subjects were selected for the study. The demographic data were collected, and the blood sample of control and cataract patients were analyzed for random blood sugar and antioxidant vitamins (A, E, and C) by Elisa Method. Results: The Blood level of vitamins E was low in cataract patients as compared to control subjects. Conclusions: The blood level of vitamin E is less in cortical and nuclear cataract patients as compared to control but had shown no significant difference between cortical and nuclear cataract patients.