Correlation between 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels in women and in vitro fertilization outcomes: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vitamin D has recently raised a great deal of controversy, not because of its traditional role of absorbing calcium and maintaining bone health, but because of its unconventional role as an endocrine factor and the extent of its impact when linked to its specific receptors (VDR) found in different tissues. Research has raced trying to find its different roles in those tissues and its association with different clinical or medical conditions, and among these cases, its role in reproductive functions and fertility in women, these studies conflicted between supporting and denying the role of vitamin D in reproductive function and rejecting this hypothesis according to the results of their study.

Materials and methods

The in vitro fertilization process allowed us to s

SUBMITTER: Faisal R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9422066 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature