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Vitamin D requirement, high risk of mortality with DM in SARS CoV2 has raised many eyebrows during this pandemic. Studies all over the world revealed prevalence of Vitamin D deciency is up to 95%. So, we did this study in Front line health care givers who are high risk groups for COVID Infection and has the higher chances of maintaining lower Vitamin D levels in relation to their occupation. Material and Methods:It's an analytical study conducted at MAMS, Bachupally, Hyderabad from June 2020 to December 2020 with the guidance of faculty from Department of Biotechnology, Chaitanya deemed to be University and Department of General medicine, MAMS. We included of 100 known Diabetes Mellitus patients who are front line health care givers. Results: In the study group we noticed 69% are Vitamin D decient (VDD) category, 18% are insufcient and 11% are normal and 2% are toxic category. Among all these DM patients, 73 have uncontrolled and 27 have controlled sugar levels. We noticed from the patient data that 32 VDD, 8 insufcient Males and 19 VDD and 4 insufcient Females are with uncontrolled sugar levels. Remaining 37 patients sugar levels are normal and their Vitamin D levels are either normal or in Toxic category. It showed us that Vitamin D levels has direct relation with Sugar levels. Conclusion: We conclude that Vitamin D has denite role in Diabetes control and its maintenance and it is advised to monitor for Vitamin D levels in all Diabetes mellitus patients at regular intervals. |
