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01-08-2016 | Correspondence
Serum Vitamin D Status and Outcome among Critically Ill Children Admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in South India: Correspondence
Published in: Indian Journal of Pediatrics | Issue 8/2016
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To the Editor : Recently, many studies demonstrated that the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) among critically ill children is 25–84 % at admission to pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) [1‐5] (Table 1). Few of them also identified that VDD is associated with greater severity of illness and longer PICU stay [1, 2, 5] which suggests that VDD has an indirect impact on hospital burden in terms of increased duration and cost of hospital stay.
Table 1
Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) among critically ill children in different studies
|
S. no.
|
Studies Author, year
|
Total patients
|
Prevalence of VDDa (%)
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
1
|
Madden et al., 2012 [1]
|
511
|
40.1
|
|
2
|
McNally et al., 2012 [2]
|
326
|
69
|
|
3
|
Rippel et al., 2012 [3]
|
316
|
34.5
|
|
4
|
Rey et al., 2014
|
156
|
29.5
|
|
5
|
Ayulo et al., 2014
|
216
|
28
|
|
6
|
Hebbar et al., 2014b
|
61
|
16.4
|
|
7
|
Dayal et al., 2014c, d
|
92
|
25
|
|
8
|
Korwutthikulrangsri et al., 2015
|
32
|
78.1
|
|
9
|
Prasad et al., 2015d
|
80
|
83.8
|
|
10
|
Ponnarmeni et al., 2015d [4]
|
124
|
50.8
|
|
11
|
Ebenezer et al., 2015d [5]
|
52
|
40.3
|