TY - JOUR
T1 - Maternal vitamin D status throughout and after pregnancy
AU - Narchi, H.
AU - Kochiyil, J.
AU - Zayed, R.
AU - Abdulrazzak, W.
AU - Agarwal, M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Declaration of interest: The work was funded by a Seed grant from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, 2006. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
PY - 2010/2
Y1 - 2010/2
N2 - Prospective longitudinal study of vitamin D status and its risk factors in 75 pregnant women from early pregnancy until 6 months postpartum, by serial measurement of serum 25 (OH) vitamin D levels. The serum levels at booking were not significantly different between nationalities (p=0.06), parity (p=0.2), education levels (p=0.4), dress code (p>0.5), consumption of vitamin D fortified milk (p=0.2) or, fatty fish (p=0.5), sun-exposed body surface area (p=0.3), weekly time exposed to the sun (p=0.08) or the sun exposure index (p=0.2). Vitamin D status progressively worsened as the proportion with adequate serum levels fell from 31 at the antenatal visit, to 23% after birth and 17, 6 months later (p=0.02). While 80 of mothers who were exclusively breast-feeding had low vitamin D levels 6 months after delivery, this occurred in only 67 of those partially breast-feeding (p=0.6).
AB - Prospective longitudinal study of vitamin D status and its risk factors in 75 pregnant women from early pregnancy until 6 months postpartum, by serial measurement of serum 25 (OH) vitamin D levels. The serum levels at booking were not significantly different between nationalities (p=0.06), parity (p=0.2), education levels (p=0.4), dress code (p>0.5), consumption of vitamin D fortified milk (p=0.2) or, fatty fish (p=0.5), sun-exposed body surface area (p=0.3), weekly time exposed to the sun (p=0.08) or the sun exposure index (p=0.2). Vitamin D status progressively worsened as the proportion with adequate serum levels fell from 31 at the antenatal visit, to 23% after birth and 17, 6 months later (p=0.02). While 80 of mothers who were exclusively breast-feeding had low vitamin D levels 6 months after delivery, this occurred in only 67 of those partially breast-feeding (p=0.6).
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Human milk
KW - Mothers
KW - Nutritional status
KW - Pregnancy
KW - Vitamin D deficiency
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U2 - 10.3109/01443610903315652
DO - 10.3109/01443610903315652
M3 - Article
C2 - 20143971
AN - SCOPUS:76949084142
SN - 0144-3615
VL - 30
SP - 137
EP - 142
JO - Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
JF - Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
IS - 2
ER -