Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia (Jun 2015)

Serum levels of 25-hydroxy vitamin D in psoriatic patients

  • Manuela Ferrasso Zuchi,
  • Paula de Oliveira Azevedo,
  • Anber Ancel Tanaka,
  • Juliano Vilaverde Schmitt,
  • Luis Eduardo Agner Machado Martins

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153524
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 90, no. 3
pp. 430 – 432

Abstract

Read online Read online

Abstract Studies have shown a relationship between vitamin D and psoriasis. We compared serum levels of vitamin D of 20 psoriasis patients and 20 controls. The median vitamin D level was 22.80 ± 4.60 ng/ml; the median in the cases was 23.55 ± 7.6 ng/ml, and in controls 22.35 ± 3.10 ng/ml (p = 0.73). Only 2 cases and 4 controls had sufficient levels of vitamin D, although without statistical significance between the groups (p = 0.608). Levels were lower in women with psoriasis compared with those in male patients (20.85 ± 6.70 x 25.35 ± 2.90 ng/ml, p = 0.03), a finding that was not observed among controls.

Keywords