Conjugated and free fucose in patients with vitamin D deficiency in Samarra city

Abstract

The study was conducted to sixty-one serum samples, thirty-five of them with Vitamin D deficiency-VDD (act as patient group-Pg), and twenty-six as a control group (Cg). The study include measurement of Vitamin D,free fucose, protein binding fucose and lipid binding fucose concentration in sera of patients and control group. Results showed that the concentration of free fucose, protein binding fucose and lipid binding fucose were significantly increased (at probability value ≤0.05) in sera of patients with VDD as compared with Cg. So from the results of the study, we can conclude that the elevation of free fucose, protein binding fucose, and lipid binding fucose with a low of Vit-D level may be a risk factor for many critical diseases such as bone diseases, cancer and cardiovascular diseases.