Vitamin D intake during pregnancy: Association with maternal characteristics and infant birth weight

• Published in: Early human development Vol. 85; no. 4; pp. 231 - 234
• Main Authors: Scholl, Theresa O., Chen, Xinhua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Ireland Ltd 01.04.2009; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Advanced Basic Science; Biological and medical sciences; Birth Weight; Body Mass Index; Cohort Studies; Embryology: invertebrates and vertebrates. Teratology; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Minority Groups; Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine; Pregnancy; Vitamin D; Vitamin D - administration & dosage; Young Adult; Pregnancy; Vitamin D; Birth weight; Human; Infant

Vitamin D insufficiency is beginning to be recognized as a public health problem. It is plausible that some portion of the lower Vitamin D levels which characterize minority populations is related to diet. We examined and described total Vitamin D intake during pregnancy from the mean of three 24-ho...