{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,18]],"date-time":"2026-08-18T04:03:18Z","timestamp":1787025798518,"version":"build-2736575974"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Journal of Nepal Medical Association (JNMA)","issue":"235","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J Nepal Med Assoc"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Introduction: Vitamin D deficiency is an emerging risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Very few studies have been done to find out vitamin D deficiency status among cardiovascular patients in Nepalese setup. This research aims to find out the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among patients of acute coronary syndrome admitted in a tertiary care center of eastern Nepal.\r\nMethods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted among patients of acute coronary syndrome admitted in a tertiary care hospital from 1st February 2018 to 31st July 2018. Ethical clearence was taken from Institutional Review Committee of B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (Reference number: 259\/074\/075-IRC). Convenience sampling method was used. Data was entered in Microsoft Excel and analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 25. Point estimate at 95% Confidence Interval was calculated along with frequency and proportion for binary data.\r\nResults: A total of 33 (64.7%) at 95% Confidence Interval (51.58-77.82) patients of acute coronary syndrome had vitamin D deficiency in our study with 19 (37.3%) having mild deficiency and 14 (27.4%) having moderate deficiency. None of the patients had severe vitamin D deficiency in our study. The mean vitamin D levels were lower in diabetics (23.57\u00c2\u00b19.28ng\/ml) as compared to non-diabetics (31.91\u00c2\u00b112.50ng\/ml), in hypertensive patients (24.36\u00c2\u00b17.67ng\/ml) as compared to non-hypertensive patients (30.97\u00c2\u00b113.72ng\/ml), and in patients with dyslipidemia (22.86\u00c2\u00b16.44ng\/ml) as compared to those without dyslipidemia (37.68\u00c2\u00b113.15ng\/ml).\r\nConclusions: Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among patients of acute coronary syndrome in our study was comparable to various other homologous international studies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.31729\/jnma.5166","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,4]],"date-time":"2021-05-04T06:28:22Z","timestamp":1620109702000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency among Patients of Acute Coronary  Syndrome in a Tertiary Care Center of Eastern Nepal"],"prefix":"10.31729","volume":"59","author":[{"given":"Richa","family":"Nepal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Prahlad","family":"Karki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Surendra","family":"Uraw","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Madhab","family":"Lamsal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"16919","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,31]]},"container-title":["Journal of Nepal Medical Association"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/www.jnma.com.np\/jnma\/index.php\/jnma\/article\/download\/5166\/3407","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/www.jnma.com.np\/jnma\/index.php\/jnma\/article\/download\/5166\/3407","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,9]],"date-time":"2021-05-09T06:29:45Z","timestamp":1620541785000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.jnma.com.np\/jnma\/index.php\/jnma\/article\/view\/5166"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,31]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"235","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,31]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.31729\/jnma.5166","relation":{},"ISSN":["1815-672X","0028-2715"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1815-672X","type":"electronic"},{"value":"0028-2715","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,31]]}}}