Mai Salah Elsayed Shabana <br/><br/>
Association between serum vitamin d level and pulmonary morbidities in preterm neonates /  
 العلاقة بين مستوى فيتامين د بالدم و الاعتلالات الرئوية  فى الأطفال المبتسرين حديثى الولادة 
Mai Salah Elsayed Shabana ; Supervised Eman Abdel Ghany Abdelghany , Hanan Ali Madani , Dina Hossam Eldine Hamed 
 - Cairo :   Mai Salah Elsayed Shabana ,   2019 
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<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics 
<br/><br/> This case control study was done to assess the association between serum neonatal 25 (OH) D level at birth and pulmonary morbidities in preterm infants. Serum 25 (OH) D levels were measured by enzymelinked immunosorbent assay for 88 preterm neonates (<37 weeks gestation) in 1st day of life, divided into two groups; case group(44 neonates) who had respiratory distress in 1st day of life and control group (44 neonates) who didnt have clinical picture of respiratory distress. Statistically significant difference was noted between vitamin D in case and control group (p value 0.001). No relation was found between vitamin D level and grades of RDS (p value 0.24). Also no relation was found between vitamin D and bronchopulmonary dysplasia p value 0.627 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Preterm neonates Pulmonary morbidities Serum vitamin D level