Analysis of vitamin B12 and D deficiency and the effect of supplementation on patients at tertiary care hospital

Srinivasa Rao B, Sakuntala Devi G, Kavitha K, Kanaka Bhushanam GVVS­

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Srinivasa Rao B^1,*, Sakuntala Devi G^2,*,Kavitha K¹ and Kanaka Bhushanam GVVS¹­

¹KIMS Foundation and Research Centre, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, Telangana, India  

²Department Obstetrics & Gynaecology (O & G), Visakhapatnam Steel General Hospital (VSGH), Visakhapatnam, AP., India

*Corresponding author: Dr. Srinivasa Rao B, M.Sc., Ph.D., KIMS Foundation and Research Centre, Minister Road, Secunderabad -500003, Telangana, India. Email: srinumicros@yahoo.co.in

Received 9 July 2015; Revised 11 September 2015; Accepted 22 September 2015; Published 29 September 2015

Citation: Srinivasa Rao B, Sakuntala Devi G, Kavitha K, Kanaka Bhushanam GVVS. Analysis of vitamin B12 and D deficiency and the effect of supplementation on patients at tertiary care hospital. J Med Sci Res. 2015; 3(4):203-207. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2015/3-039

Copyright: © 2015 Srinivasa Rao B, et al. Published by KIMS Foundation and Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

Vitamins are essential organic compounds for the body and the study aims to understand the extent of deficiency present among the patients tested for deficiency and the effect of supplementation. Our study also aims in understanding the effect of supplementation on treating the deficiency along with its effect on any secondary disease conditions present among the patients such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis and/or hypertension. Assessment was carried out in randomly selected, 500 patients from the patient pool (March 2013 to March 2015) and supplemented with vitamins at KIMS hospital, Secunderabad. Data such as biochemical measures, medications, food supplements and herbal medicines were also taken into consideration. The assessment showed improvement in deficiency symptoms after supplementation. Along with this, the improvement in general health of patients that have secondary conditions was analyzed. The study shows that patients with osteoporosis are benefited by vitamin D supplementation and supplementation seems to also helped patients with pain in case of rheumatoid arthritis. Patients with diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease did not show much improvement with supplementation. Patients with hypertension solely or with other conditions show improvement with this problem compared to other conditions. We observed that supplementation does have a role in general health improvement in patients with some chronic conditions.

Keywords: vitamin D; vitamin B12; deficiency; general health; supplementation