Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency among Sudanese Ladies with Secondary and Primary Infertility
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2018-06-30
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جامعة الشيخ عبدالله البدري
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Abstract: Vitamin D is so essential to fertility and getting pregnant is because it is
needed to help the body create sex hormones. There is no published about the
association between vitamin D deficiency and infertility among Sudanese ladies with
infertility disorders. To know the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among Sudanese
women with infertility disorders. To know the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency
among women with secondary infertility in comparison to those with primary infertility
disorders. Descriptive, cross-sectional study, applied immunoassay to measure vitamin
D level among the participant ladies. 64.5% of infertile ladies showed vitamin D
deficiency. 18.8% of ladies with secondary infertility showed vitamin D deficiency
compared to 45.7 %among ladies with primary infertility disorders. Further study
should be done with large sample size and more than one method should be applied to
measure vitamin D in order to obtain more accurate results.