RETROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF VITAMIN D STATUS IN NEUROLOGICAL PATIENTS.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in this observational study publication.

The main objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of insufficient serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level in a sample of neurological patients and to compare it to the estimate in the general Croatian population.

Why It Was Studied

This retrospective study involved 371 neurological patients in one-year period.

The data collected included gender, age at the time of admission, region, season at the time of admission, main neurological diagnosis at discharge, serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level at the time of hospitalization, and use of vitamin D3 substitutes prior to hospitalization.

Who Took Part

The study group was 371 patients.

The age groups tagged for this paper are adults, middle-aged adults and older adults, both men and women.

What Was Measured

The data collected included gender, age at the time of admission, region, season at the time of admission, main neurological diagnosis at discharge, serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level at the time of hospitalization, and use of vitamin D3 substitutes prior to hospitalization.

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Vitamin D Deficiency, Croatia, Vitamin D, Nervous System Diseases and Prevalence.

The authors tagged it with the keywords Autoimmune diseases and Vitamin D deficiency, Multiple sclerosis.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is an observational study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 371 patients.

With several hundred people or more, it is a fairly large study for this kind of research.

The publication is from 2023 (Acta clinica Croatica), a journal based in Croatia.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.