Background
The objectives of this study were estimating the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency
in patients with acute coronary syndrome comparing with normal people and evaluating
the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and short-term mortality in these patients.
Methods
We considered 106 patients with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction and high-risk
unstable angina and 110 patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction as group
A. The control group (group B) consisted of 120 individuals without any known cardiovascular
diseases or systemic disease. We measured serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in all cases and
classified them according to their serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels. Sufficient vitamin
D level was considered ≥30 ng/ml. We followed the patients for 30 days after index admission.
Results
The prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in group A was much higher than group B. In group
A, 72% of patients had serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level of 20 ng/ml or less. This percentage was only 27.4% in control group. We did not find any
significant relationship between vitamin D deficiency and short-term mortality in
patients with acute coronary syndrome.
Conclusion
Our data suggest that vitamin D deficiency was present in most of patients admitted
with acute coronary syndrome in Ahvaz.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: December 26, 2012
Accepted:
November 8,
2012
Received in revised form:
October 30,
2012
Received:
August 20,
2012
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© 2012 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
