STUDY OF VITAMIN D LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH BRONCHIAL ASTHMA

Introduction: Bronchial Asthma is one of the oldest diseases yet its recognised as a major public health problem which cannot be cured but can be maintained, provided apt and correct treatment and style life management has been followed. This study is about the relation between vitamin D levels with bronchial asthma and to nd out whether mere supplementation of the vitamin along with inhalers can prove benecial to all bronchial asthma patients who has been stabilised with their own management, in view of asthma control and lung function. Methods & Materials: This is a crosssectional study where in 55 patients were taken up for the study by OPD follow up in a tertiary care centre, after looking into the inclusion and exclusion criteria and were prescribed with vitamin D supplements and ACT scores and PFT values were recorded and analysed pre and post supplementation. Results: It was found out that in our study, there was signicance in bronchial asthma patients with low vitamin D levels, but its supplementation had created an improvement of ACT scoring from 18.76 ± 1.42 to 21.16 ± 1.55 and in regard of FEV1 in spirometry there was an improvement from 59.58 to 67.21 post supplementation. Conclusion: This study proves that vitamin D supplementation does cause benecial effects on the performance of stabilised bronchial asthma patient in the long run.