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Correlation of vitamin D to attention deficit hyperactivty disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

M. Abouzed ,
A. Moshref ,
A. Elsherbiny  and
M. Elsheikh
A. Moshref
Affiliation:
Al-Azhar Faculty of Medicine, Psychiatry, Cairo, Egypt
A. Elsherbiny
Affiliation:
Al-Azhar Faculty of Medicine, Psychiatry, Cairo, Egypt
M. Elsheikh
Affiliation:
Al-Azhar Faculty of Medicine, Psychiatry, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

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ADHD is one of the most common neurodevlopmental psychiatric disorders. Many factors have been identified as the cause of ADHD. ADHD is thought to be the result of interactions between biopsychosocial factors leading to neurobiliogcal change. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between serum level of vitamin D and symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Design

This is a case-control study which was conducted in children below 12 years of age from June 2013 to May 2014 at outpatient child psychiatry clinic at Elhussin Hospital Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

Methods and subjects

The study was based on 62 cases and 30 controls. The data collection instrument included socio-demographic & Children Attention and Adjustment Survey (House form){CAAS}. And interview by (Diagnostic Interview Kiddie-Sads-Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL) to exclude other psychiatric morbidity. clinical data, serum 25(OH) Vitamin D. Descriptive statistical analysis were performed, Pearson Chi2 test (χ2) and Student (t) test.

Result

1-Vitamin D level was much lower in ADHD children compared to healthy children, and was a significant difference in the mean values of vitamin D between ADHD(23 ± 13) and control group means (44 ± 12) and P value was > 0.001 and was significant difference between subgroup of ADHD, means of inattentive subtype was(20 ± 13) hyper active subtype (30.1 ± 5)and combined subtype(24.04 ± 4). P value 0.011*.

Conclusion

Children with ADHD had significantly lower levels of VITAMIN D than healthy, and inattention subtype than other types of ADHD.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Keywords

ADHDChild psychiatryVitamin D
Type
EW59
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S127 - S128
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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