A Study On Serum Vitamin D Levels In Acute Ischemic Stroke At Government General Hospital, Vijayawada

Background: stroke has many well-established risk factors like diabetes mellitus, systemic hypertension, dyslipidemia, atrial fibrillation and smoking. Vitamin d is being looked upon as one of the latest risk factors. Our aim is to find out the association between vitamin d and acute ischemic stroke, and the effect of parameters like age, gender, obesity and dyslipidemia on vitamin d levels. Materials and methodology: This is a observational study of 100 subjects – 50 patients with acute ischaemic stroke and 50 age and sex matches controls without stroke, studied consecutively at siddhartha medical college hospital, vijayawada during a period from january 2024 to june 2024. Serum 25 hydroxy vitamin d levels were measured along with body mass index, ldl cholestrol, hdl cholestrol, triglycerides and total cholestrol. Results: Stroke patients had significant vitamin d deficiency (mean-13.48ng/ml, p value<0.01) when compared to controls (mean 23.03ng/ml). Gender variation and smoking did not affect the vitamin d levels and was found to be significantly lower in cases with age less than 40yrs (p-0.046). Vitamin d levels were not affected body mass index or lipid levels