Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Obesity and vitamin D deficiency are become most important public health problems independently. We aimed to investigate the relationship between vitamin D levels and metabolic sydrome (MetS) in obese children and adolescents.Patients and methods: 51 obese children/adolescents at the age of 12.4±2.73 (7.0–18.0) years and 48 age–sex matched healthy controls were enrolled. Serum 25 OHD, 1,25 (OH)2 D, calcium, phosphorus, alkal...