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    Kwon, Byoung-Soo; Lee, Kyunghoon; Kim, Eun-Sun; Jun, Sun-Hee; Lim, Sung-Yoon; Song, Myung-Jin; Kim, Yeon-Wook; Lee, Yeon-Joo; Park, Jong-Sun; Cho, Young-Jae; Yoon, Ho-Il; Lee, Choon-Taek; Song, Junghan; Lee, Jae-Ho

    Nutrients, 07/2021, Letnik: 13, Številka: 8
    Journal Article

    Research on vitamin D in patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pulmonary disease (PD) is limited. We aimed to compare the vitamin D parameters of patients with NTM-PD to those of a healthy control group, and to assess the possible predictive markers for a clinical response. We prospectively enrolled 53 patients with NTM-PD between January 2014 and December 2016. The clinical data and vitamin D indices, including total, free, bioavailable 25-(OH)D, and vitamin D binding protein (VDBP) genotyping, were measured at baseline and six months after enrollment. An external dataset of 226 healthy controls was compared with the NTM-PD group. The mean age of subjects was 53 years; 54.5% were male. The NTM-PD group was older, predominantly female, and had a lower body mass index (BMI) than the controls. The proportion of patients with vitamin D concentration <50 nmol/L was 52.8% in the NTM-PD group and 54.9% in the control group (p = 0.789). The bioavailable 25-(OH)D concentrations of the NTM-PD group and the controls were similar (6.9 nmol/L vs. 7.6 nmol/L, p = 0.280). In the multivariable analysis, bioavailable 25-(OH)D concentrations were associated with NTM-PD, adjusting for age, sex, BMI, and VDBP levels. Bioavailable 25-(OH)D concentrations were significantly associated with susceptibility to NTM-PD, but not with treatment outcomes. Lower bioavailable 25-(OH)D might be a risk factor for NTM-PD.