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<Articles JournalTitle="Acta Medica Iranica">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Acta Medica Iranica</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>0044-6025</Issn>
      <Volume>52</Volume>
      <Issue>8</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2014</Year>
        <Month>08</Month>
        <Day>15</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Assessment of Vitamin D Plasma Levels in Patients with Vitiligo Vulgaris</title>
    <FirstPage>601</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>606</LastPage>
    <Language>EN</Language>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Akram</FirstName>
        <LastName>Beheshti</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Hodda</FirstName>
        <LastName>Ghadami</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Ameneh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Barikani</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Fatemeh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Haj Manouchehri</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2015</Year>
        <Month>10</Month>
        <Day>11</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Vitiligo Vulgaris is a pigment disorder as the lack of skin pigmentation which its most prevalent cause is autoimmune. Vitamin D has various effects on the natural and acquired immune of the body because of its effectiveness on the T cells and B cells, macrophages and dendritic cells.The object of this study was assessment of the Vitamin D in patients with vitiligo vulgaris in dermatologic clinics in Qazvin in 2012. The 100 patients with Vitiligo were studied through a cross-sectional study. The required data were collected by the questionnaire (age, gender, job, family background, consumption of the dairies and vitamin D supplements), examination (type of skin) and para clinical test (measurement of the serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level). The 42 (42%) and 58 (58%) people of the population under study were respectively male and female. The mean age of the population under study was 28.7&#xB1;1.17. The mean serum of 25-hydroxyvitamin D level was 42&#xB1;24.14 which had a significance difference with a normal level (p&lt;0.04). The mean serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level among patients with Vitiligo had a significance difference with a normal level.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/4567</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/download/4567/4284</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
