Vitamin D Deficiency Among Women With Unexplained Infertility

Ain Shams Maternity Hospital

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Case Control Study

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03396237

Vitamin D and Infertility

Details and patient eligibility

About

Does vitamin D is more deficient in women with unexplained infertility than in fertile pregnant women or not?

Full description

The study will be done on women with unexplained infertility as a case group and fertile pregnant women as control group to detect if there's a difference in serum level of vitamin D between two groups which will help in the future for curing unexplained infertility women.

Enrollment

108 estimated patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 38 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

women with unexplained infertility.
pregnant fertile women as control group.

Exclusion criteria

• Endocrinopathies such as (diabetes mellitus, thyroid disorders, parathyroid disorders and hyperprolactinemia), cardiovascular related diseases, severe infection, malignancies and concomitant diseases contribute to Vit D deficiency.
- Women with ovulatory factor like PCOS,anovulation and poor ovarian reserve are excluded.
- Women with endometriosis are excluded.
- Women with autoimmune diseases like antiphospholipid antibodies or lupus erythematosus are excluded.
- Documented uterine anomalies, tubal factor, cervical factor and other local causes of infertility.
- Male factor of infertility is excluded.
- Bone and metabolic disease, liver diseases and kidney related diseases.