Objective: assess vitamin D level in healthy children in Nineveh Provence -Iraq, and to study risk factors for it is deficiency. Design: A cross sectional study.Patients and method: study was conducted during summer on 160 healthy children. The children were in 3 age groups, below12 months, 12-72 months and >72 months. Blood was collected and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level was measured by ELISA. Vitamin D level below 12 ng/ml was defined as deficiency state, while 12-20 ng/mlwas insufficient and that which was above 20 ng/ml as sufficient.Results: 53%of children had adequate vitamin D concentration, while 25% of them had insufficient vit D and 21.9% of children had deficient vitamin D. Female are more deficient in vitamin D than male, while male were more sufficient in vitamin D than female. Discussion: low prevalence of vitamin D may be due nutritional problems, pattern of clothing, and lack of sun exposure. Conclusion: In Nineveh city there is increased prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in child of 0 to 14 years old age. Only 53.1% of the study childrenhad sufficient vitamin D while others were either deficient (21.9%) or insufficient (25%) in vitamin D.
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