MATERIALS AND METHODS
Local ethics committee approval was obtained for the study. In this
study, 101 patients who applied to Ordu State Hospital dermatology
outpatient clinic between March 2019 and June 2020 and were diagnosed
with zona zoster and had a vitamin D result at the time of diagnosis and
a control group of 100 people were included. Data of the patient and
control groups were recorded. The location of the disease and the season
of admission were recorded in the patient group. Individuals with
cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal disease, kidney disease,
malignancy, pregnancy, diabetes mellitus, autoimmune and inflammatory
diseases, and individuals taking vitamin D supplements were not included
in the control group. Informed consent was obtained.
The data were evaluated with IBM SPPS statistics 21 package program.
Numerical variables were expressed as mean ± standard deviation,
percentage. An evaluation was made after checking whether the parameters
were normally distributed. In data analysis, student’s T test was used
for group comparisons, and in cases where there was no normal
distribution, Mann Whitney-U test was used. The relationship between the
two variables was evaluated using the Pearson correlation test in
parametric tests and the Spearman correlation test in non-parametric
tests. A value of p <0.05 was accepted for the significance
level of the tests.