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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine research2025

Serum Vitamin D Level Correlates Significantly With Leptin and Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha in Overweight Postmenopausal Women With Hypertension.

Dina M Qahwaji, Abdulhalim Salim Serafi, Shalan Alaamri, Zahir Hussain, Mohammed A Bafail, Christopher S Gondi, Lusine Demirkhanyan, Rizwana Sanaullah Waraich, Sumera Sohail

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Dina M QahwajiDepartment of Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8553-3169
Abdulhalim Salim SerafiDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7304-9268
Shalan AlaamriDepartment of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jeddah University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-8971-5699
Zahir HussainDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4739-1865
Mohammed A BafailDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8702-2258
Christopher S GondiDepartment of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, Peoria, IL, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3036-9920
Lusine DemirkhanyanDepartment of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, Peoria, IL, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3535-7996
Rizwana Sanaullah WaraichDepartment of Biomedical & Biological Sciences, Biomedical Research Center, Sohail University, Karachi 78400, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5560-5053
Sumera SohailDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Science, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-6748

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Background: Association of serum vitamin D (vitD) with leptin (Lep) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) is not precisely known in overweight hypertensive (OW-HT) postmenopausal (PMP) women. Hence, the present study was carried out to investigate the body mass index (BMI)-based correlation of serum vitD with Lep and TNF-α in OW-HT PMP women. Methods: Women subjects in their early PMP (n = 346, age: 51 - 60 years) categorized into three groups had main inclusion criteria of specified range of age, BMI and blood pressure (BP). Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and other kit methods were employed to investigate the role of various variables in three subject groups (normal weight normotensive (NW-NT, n = 116, BMI (kg/m Results: A significant negative linear correlation of vitD with serum Lep and TNF-α, and a significant positive linear correlation of BMI with Lep and TNF-α in OW-HT PMP women were obtained. Significantly higher levels of serum Lep, TNF-α and interleukin-6 (IL-6) were found in OW-HT PMP women, as compared to NW-HT PMP women. Conclusions: The present study suggests that decreased serum vitD levels correlate with the Lep and TNF-α in OW-HT PMP women. However, further studies may help understand the impact of vitD in cardiovascular events and the influencing factors in OW-HT PMP women.

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LeptinOverweight hypertensivesPostmenopausal womenSerum vitamin DTNF-α

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