Hypovitaminosis D is common in both urban and rural Indians. The dose of vitamin D
needed for the treatment of its deficiency during pregnancy is not clear. We conducted a
study in rural Indians to evaluate the effect of cholecalciferol supplementation during routine
antenatal visits on maternal 25 hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) at delivery. Pregnant women
received either no cholecalciferol (Group A) or 60 000 U (Group B) in the fifth month of
gestation or 120 000 U each in the fifth and seventh gestational months (Group C). Serum …

Following the publication of a paper titled 'Vitamin D replacement in pregnant women in
rural North India: a pilot study'by Sahu et al.(Eur J Clin Nutr 63, 1157–1159), a Letter to the
Editor was received from DE Roth (doi: 10.1038/ejcn. 2010.1). The Letter and a Response to
the letter by the authors, led by the corresponding author V Bhatia (doi: 10.1038/ejcn.
2010.2), were published online in February 2010 and follow this note in this print issue. A
matter related to corrections that were made to the initial Letter to the Editor by Roth at the …