Did Wearing Mask and Lockdowns Affect Vitamin D Levels During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic?
Objective:To investigate the effects of wearing mask and lockdowns during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the vitamin D levels in females.Materials and Methods:This retrospective study included female adults aged 18-64 years who underwent vitamin D evaluation at our hospital in A...
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doaj-3220fc676ec1466ba030c01c8195ce6c2021-08-03T12:34:00ZengGalenos YayineviTürk Osteoporoz Dergisi2147-26532147-26532021-08-0127210911310.4274/tod.galenos.2021.0981513049054Did Wearing Mask and Lockdowns Affect Vitamin D Levels During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic?Serap Satış0Alparslan Yetişgin1 Harran University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Şanlıurfa, Turkey Harran University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Şanlıurfa, Turkey Objective:To investigate the effects of wearing mask and lockdowns during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the vitamin D levels in females.Materials and Methods:This retrospective study included female adults aged 18-64 years who underwent vitamin D evaluation at our hospital in April and May from 2017 to 2020. Vitamin D levels were categorized as follows: <10 ng/mL (severe deficiency); 10 to <20 ng/mL (deficiency); 20 to 30 ng/mL (insufficiency) and >30 ng/mL (normal).Results:A total of 835 (90.8%) out of 920 females had vitamin D deficiency, and among them 463 (50.3%) had vitamin D severe deficiency. In April and May of 2020 (during the national lockdown period), 74 (89.2%) out of 83 subjects had vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D levels were found to be higher in 2017 than the other years (p<0.001). There was no significant difference between the lockdown year (2020) and the 2018 and 2019 years regarding vitamin D levels (p>0.05).Conclusion:Our findings indicate that there is a serious and urgent public health problem regarding with vitamin D deficiency (>90%) in our population; and about 50% of them had severe deficiency. This problem was not different during the lockdown period compared with the previous two years. http://www.turkosteoporozdergisi.org/archives/archive-detail/article-preview/did-wearing-mask-and-lockdowns-affect-vitamin-d-le/48355 coronavirus 2019lockdownoutbreakmaskvitamin d deficiency |
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Did Wearing Mask and Lockdowns Affect Vitamin D Levels During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic? |
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Did Wearing Mask and Lockdowns Affect Vitamin D Levels During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic? |
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Did Wearing Mask and Lockdowns Affect Vitamin D Levels During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic? |
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did wearing mask and lockdowns affect vitamin d levels during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic? |
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Galenos Yayinevi |
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Türk Osteoporoz Dergisi |
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Objective:To investigate the effects of wearing mask and lockdowns during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the vitamin D levels in females.Materials and Methods:This retrospective study included female adults aged 18-64 years who underwent vitamin D evaluation at our hospital in April and May from 2017 to 2020. Vitamin D levels were categorized as follows: <10 ng/mL (severe deficiency); 10 to <20 ng/mL (deficiency); 20 to 30 ng/mL (insufficiency) and >30 ng/mL (normal).Results:A total of 835 (90.8%) out of 920 females had vitamin D deficiency, and among them 463 (50.3%) had vitamin D severe deficiency. In April and May of 2020 (during the national lockdown period), 74 (89.2%) out of 83 subjects had vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D levels were found to be higher in 2017 than the other years (p<0.001). There was no significant difference between the lockdown year (2020) and the 2018 and 2019 years regarding vitamin D levels (p>0.05).Conclusion:Our findings indicate that there is a serious and urgent public health problem regarding with vitamin D deficiency (>90%) in our population; and about 50% of them had severe deficiency. This problem was not different during the lockdown period compared with the previous two years. |
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