Maternal Awareness of Vitamin D Deficiency in Infants and Children Up to the Age of 6 Years: A Cross-sectional Study in Jordan.

Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide health problem. The current study aims to evaluate mothers' habits and knowledge regarding vitamin D deficiency in kids up to the age of 6. A questionnaire was made available online among mothers of children between 0 and 6 years.

Cross-sectional correlates of nesfatin and lipopolysaccharide binding protein in metabolic syndrome patients with and without prediabetes.

Background Metabolic syndrome (MetS) and prediabetes (preDM) have crosslinked pathophysiologies with central obesity and insulin resistance (IR). This study aimed to compare and correlate nesfatin and lipopolysaccharide binding protein (LBP) plasma levels, adiposity, atherogenicity and hematological indices between non-diabetic MetS, newly diagnosed drug naive pre-diabetic MetS patients vs. normoglycemic lean controls.