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[Correlation between insufficiency or deficiency of vitamin D levels and interleukins 1β and 6]
Luis Fernando Zavala-Jonguitud1, Juan Carlos Anda, Miguel Guillermo Flores-Padilla
1Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Hospital de Especialidades, Ciudad de México, México. l_f_z_j@yahoo.com.
Objectives:
The primary objective of this study was to define the relationship between vitamin D levels and interleukins (IL) 1β and 6 as inflammatory markers in a healthy population. As a secondary objective, to measure the prevalence of insufficiency/ deficiency of vitamin D in the same population.
Methods:
A sample of 43 healthy blood donors, without chronic-degenerative, inflammatory, or infectious diseases, and without obesity, was selected. Serum levels of IL-1β and IL-6 were measured in individuals with insufficiency or deficiency of vitamin D. The correlation between vitamin D and interleukins was measured using Spearman's rho.
Results:
No correlation was found between levels of vitamin D and interleukins. In addition, a prevalence of insufficiency/deficiency of vitamin D was found in 95.3% of the sample.
Conclusions:
In healthy subjects with deficiency or insufficiency of vitamin D, there is no association between the levels of this vitamin and IL-1β and IL-6.
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