Open AccessThe Impact of Vitamin D on The Development of Multiple Sclerosis (Review article)
Author(s) -
Aseel Ghassan Daoud,
Huda Jaber Waheed,
Mayssaa Essam Abdala
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
almustansiriya journal of pharmaceutical sciences/al-mustansiriyah journal of pharmaceutical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2959-183X
pISSN - 1815-0993
DOI - 10.32947/ajps.v21i3.792
Subject(s) - multiple sclerosis , disease , vitamin d and neurology , medicine , incidence (geometry) , epidemiology , vitamin , vitamin d deficiency , physiology , immunology , physics , optics
Multiple Sclerosis is a harmful disease causes severe and painful symptoms. In the recent period, researchers have tended to study the effect of vitamin D deficiency on general health. Several studies have reported that there is a relation between vitamin D levels and MS disease progression. Epidemiological testimony
and reports have recorded that there are an association between the decrement in plasma vitamin D levels and the incidence of MS also with the disease development; and it has seen that when take vitamin D as supplement may protect the MS patients against disease development. Despite clear evidence of the correlation between disease progression and vitamin D deficiency but the mechanism yet unclear.