Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Monday, June 10, 2013

Low Vitamin D Linked to Hepatitis B

Vitamin D deficiency might be a key player in hepatitis B (HBV) replication, researchers reported.
Low levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D predicted high levels of the virus and vice versa, said Christian Lange, MD, and colleagues at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, in a retrospective case-control study.

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Source: Medpage

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1 comment:

RAWDA RUTH SARRAIL said...

...25-hydroxyvitamin - D deficiency may help spread of Hepatitis B.

...Vit.- D deficiency was uniformly observe in all forms of Hepatitis but with no significant correlation to the LL37 level ( human cathelicidin peptide).

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