TY - JOUR AU - Malik, Yasir Iqbal AU - Malik, Aqsa AU - Zaman, Atteya AU - Shabbir, Rabia AU - Talib, Masooma PY - 2020/05/04 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Association of Serum Vitamin D Levels with Senile Cataract: Doi: 10.36351/pjo.v36i3.1037 JF - Pakistan Journal of Ophthalmology JA - pak J Ophthalmol VL - 36 IS - 3 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.36351/pjo.v36i3.1037 UR - https://www.pjo.org.pk/index.php/pjo/article/view/1037 SP - AB - <p>Purpose: To determine vitamin D levels in patients of senile cataract and compare them with age related control<br>patients.<br>Study Design: Case control observational study.<br>Place and Duration of Study: Naseer Memorial Hospital, Dadhyal Azad Kashmir from March 2016 to June<br>2017.<br>Material and Methods: Three hundred patients were selected and two groups were designed for the study.<br>Group I included patients having senile cataract of any morphological type. The inclusion criteria were age of 50<br>years or more. Group II was control in which age matched controls that had no cataract were enrolled from the<br>outpatient clinic. Vitamin D levels were measured by radioimmunoassay technique with Diasorin SR® kit following<br>the user’s manual. The collected data was entered in the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version<br>21 for analysis. Independent t –test was used to determine the significant difference of means between controls<br>and patients. P value less than 0.05 was considered as significant.<br>Results: Group I consisted of 65.33 % females and 35.66% males whereas in group II were 68% females and<br>32% males. The mean age of patients was 63.20 ± 9.5 years in group I and 65.5 ± 8.9 years in group II.<br>Statistically no significant difference (p&gt;0.05) was found between mean Vitamin D levels in cataract patients<br>(25.95 ± 3.75 ng/mL vs. and age matched control (29.02 ± 5.11ng/mL).<br>Conclusion: There was no statistically significant difference between the vitamin D levels of cataract patients<br>and the age matched controls</p> ER -