DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2021.v07i09.013

Pages: 453-458

Background: Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is found recently common across all age groups and may contribute to Ischemic stroke. V causing isch¬emic stroke has been documented in recent reports. Objectives: To determine the correlation between serum level of Vitamin D with acute ischemic stroke patients admitted to hospital. Materials and methods: A case-control study including 60 acute ischemic patients admitted in the department of neurology as case and 60 apparently healthy genders and age group matched as control were recruited. All the participants were interviewed for medical history. Physical examination was done and imaging reports confirmed the diagnosis of stroke by the neurologist. Data were collected by a pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire, clinical examination [body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), blood pressure] For Laboratory investigation of serum 25-Hydroxy Vitamin D[25(OH)D], venous blood was collected and assayed by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) method. Results: About 94.74% of study populations were found to have low Vitamin D levels of which insufficiency and deficiency were 38.35% and 56.16% respectively. The mean (±SD) Vitamin D level of acute ischemic stroke patients was 18.68± 8.29 whereas 18.07±8.05 in healthy control. Conclusions: There is a high prevalence of biochemical hypovitaminosis D in Bangladeshi of all age and sex groups despite adequate sunshine. There is no significant difference in Vitamin D levels between stroke and healthy participants.