tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Vitamin D deficiency in undifferentiated connective tissue disease"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Vitamin D deficiency in undifferentiated connective tissue disease. | Available online http content 10 5 R123 Open Access Research article Vitamin D deficiency in undifferentiated connective tissue disease Eva Zold1 Peter Szodoray1 Janos Gaal2 János Kappelmayer3 Laszlo Csathy3 Edit Gyimesi1 Margit Zeher1 Gyula Szegedi1 and Edit Bodolay1 Division of Clinical Immunology 3rd Department of Medicine Medical and Health Science Center University of Debrecen Moricz Zs. Str. 22 Debrecen 4032 Hungary 2Department of Rheumatology Kenezy County Hospital Bartok Bela Str. 4 4043 Debrecen Hungary 3Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Pathology Medical and Health Science Center University of Debrecen Moricz Zs. Str. 22 Debrecen 4032 Hungary Corresponding author Eva Zold zold_eva@ Received 17 Jun 2008 Revisions requested 11 Jul 2008 Revisions received 9 Sep 2008 Accepted 18 Oct 2008 Published 18 Oct 2008 Arthritis Research Therapy 2008 10 R123 doi 86 ar2533 This article is online at http content 10 5 R1 23 2008 Zold et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Both experimental and clinical data provide evidence that vitamin D is one of those important environmental factors that can increase the prevalence of certain autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus rheumatoid arthritis insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and inflammatory bowel disease. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency in patients with undifferentiated connective tissue disease UCTD . Methods Plasma 25 OH D3 levels in 161 UCTD patients were measured in both summer and winter periods. Autoantibody profiles antinuclear antibody anti-U1-ribonucleoprotein anti-SSA anti-SSB .