Women’s fertility and vitamin D: Could hypovitaminosis D biomarkers correlate with the disease, and explain the unexplained female factor infertility?
Vit D levels are significantly reduced in infertile women; lowest in PCOS and unexplained etiology, for all biomarkers, where calcitriol was the optimal predictor of both infertility and etiology.
Authors
- Ahmed Baker Alshaikh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-4099)
- Abdulrahman H. Almaeen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9267-2637)
- Tarek H. El‐Metwally (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9040-6642)
- Ibrahim A Albahlol (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9859-3574)
- Alduraywish Abdulrahman A (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2710-3187)
- Umar Farooq Dar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2149-2190)
Institutions
- Jouf University (SA)
- Assiut University (EG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- African Health Sciences
- Published
- 2024-10-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v24i3.30
- Primary Topic
- Vitamin D Research Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00