Open AccessVitamin D Status and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Long-Term Psychiatric Inpatients
Author(s) -
Abdullah Algın,
Salim Khan,
Shaheen F. Mustafa,
Abu Qutubuddin,
Charles M. Davis
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
primary care companion to cns disorders/the primary care companion for cns disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 2155-7772
pISSN - 2155-7780
DOI - 10.4088/pcc.11m01221
Subject(s) - vitamin d and neurology , medicine , brief psychiatric rating scale , body mass index , vitamin d deficiency , vitamin , obesity , blood pressure , gastroenterology , endocrinology , psychiatry , psychosis
Low vitamin D levels are common in psychiatric patients, but a need for vitamin D supplementation in these individuals remains controversial. Low vitamin D levels are reportedly associated with high prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors, and both are common in psychiatric patients, but the relationship between diagnosis and severity of illness and cardiometabolic risk status and the effect of vitamin D treatment on them is not known. We studied these relationships and effect of vitamin D(3) treatment on them in 290 long-term psychiatric inpatients.