Vitamin D Deficiency and Vasovagal Syncope in Children and Adolescents
Open Access
- 25 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Frontiers in Pediatrics
Abstract
Aims: To investigate the association of vitamin D deficiency with cardiovascular autonomic nervous system function in children and adolescents with vasovagal syncope (VVS). Methods: This study recruited 76 pediatric patients with VVS and 15 healthy children. The 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in serum among the participants were evaluated. Heart rate variability analysis including SDNN, rMSSD, and SDANN was tested in patients with VVS. The correlation between indices of time-domain analysis and serum vitamin D status of the children with VVS was investigated. Results: In this work, 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in serum among VVS cases remarkably decreased compared with those among healthy controls (48.76 ± 19.25 vs. 67.62 ± 15.46 nmol/L, p < 0.01). The vitamin D deficient patients with VVS exhibited a lower rMSDD value compared to the non-deficient group with VVS (45.56 ± 16.87 vs. 61.90 ± 20.38 ms, p < 0.001, respectively). Pearson correlation analysis indicated that serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels had positive correlation with rMSDD values (r = 0.466, p < 0.001). Conclusions: As suggested by our data, VVS children and adolescents with vitamin D deficiency may have cardiac autonomic dysfunction and cardiac vagal tone decreases with the reduction in vitamin D level.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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