Abstract:Background: Depression can be correlated with severe disability, mortality, and significant healthcare costs. It is the third leading cause of disability in worldwide affecting around 840 million people1. Vitamin D, which is a distinctive hormone with target receptors found in many areas in the body and in human brain, plays an important role in the development of depression through many physiological processes. In Saudi Arabia we found that the prevalence of depression is high, however, the exact cause is unk… Show more
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