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<Articles JournalTitle="Journal of Pharmaceutical Care">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Journal of Pharmaceutical Care</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2322-4630</Issn>
      <Volume>8</Volume>
      <Issue>2</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>06</Month>
        <Day>26</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Association Between Left Ventricle Ejection Fraction and Vitamin D Levels in Congestive Heart Failure; A Cross Sectional Study</title>
    <FirstPage>50</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>52</LastPage>
    <Language>EN</Language>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Betul</FirstName>
        <LastName>Ozdemir</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Nigde Omer Halisdemir University, Campus, 51240, Nigde, Turkey.</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>02</Month>
        <Day>12</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>03</Month>
        <Day>09</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Background: Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a chronic disease that incidence is growing in the population. Vitamin D effects on directly myocardial cells. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between vitamin D levels with ejection fraction of left ventricle.
Methods: The study population consisted of 101 patients admitted with heart failure. Age, gender, and demographic characteristics (diabetes mellitus, hypertension, smoking-nonsmoking, coronary artery disease) of all patients were recorded. In all patients for blood analyses vitamin D, creatine, crp and lipid profile were studied. And all patients were studied echocardiography.
Results: CHF patients, in our population 35 (34.7%) patient is female and 66 (65.3%) patient is male. The mean age of our patients was calculated as 67.4&#xB1;12.9 years. Our patients laboratory parameters mean were measured for vitamin D 24.3&#xB1;17.3 ng/ml. Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) mean was measured 31.8&#xB1;9.5. In our study group LVEF and vitamin D was correlated with each other
Conclusion: Vitamin D and LVEF had a positive correlation in heart failure patients. It may be occured with the protective effect of vitamin D or consequence of hipovitaminosis.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://jpc.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jpc/article/view/323</web_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
