Maternal vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy

EM Curtis, RJ Moon, NC Harvey… - British medical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Maternal vitamin D status in pregnancy has been linked to many health
outcomes in mother and offspring. A wealth of observational studies have reported on both …

The importance of vitamin D in maternal and child health: a global perspective

M Fiscaletti, P Stewart, CF Munns - Public health reviews, 2017 - Springer
Vitamin D and calcium are important nutrients for skeletal growth and bone health. Children
and pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to 25-hydroxy vitamin D deficiency (VDD) …

Implications of vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy and lactation

ML Mulligan, SK Felton, AE Riek… - American journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
Vitamin D is an essential fat soluble vitamin and a key modulator of calcium metabolism in
children and adults. Because calcium demands increase in the third trimester of pregnancy …

Complications of vitamin D deficiency from the foetus to the infant: One cause, one prevention, but who's responsibility?

W Högler - Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Calcium and phosphorus represent building material for bones. The supplier of these bone
minerals is the hormone calcitriol, which originates from vitamin D, itself made by sunshine …

Rickets: part II

RM Shore, RW Chesney - Pediatric radiology, 2013 - Springer
This is the continuation of a two-part review of rickets. This part emphasizes the specific
pathophysiology, clinical features, pathoanatomy and radiographic findings of vitamin D …

Effect of vitamin D supplementation in early life on children's growth and body composition: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

K Ma, SQ Wei, WG Bi, HA Weiler, SW Wen - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy or infancy is associated with adverse
growth in children. No systematic review has been conducted to summarize available …

Prenatal calcium and vitamin D intake, and bone mass in later life

EM Curtis, RJ Moon, EM Dennison… - Current osteoporosis …, 2014 - Springer
The aging population will result in an increasing burden of osteoporotic fractures,
necessitating the identification of novel strategies for prevention. There is increasing …

Endocrinology in pregnancy: influence of maternal vitamin D status on obstetric outcomes and the fetal skeleton

RJ Moon, NC Harvey, C Cooper - European journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Vitamin D status has been increasingly associated with wide-ranging clinical outcomes.
There is now a wealth of observational studies reporting on its associations with obstetric …

The return of congenital rickets, are we missing occult cases?

ATH Elidrissy - Calcified tissue international, 2016 - Springer
Congenital rickets is the term given to fetus born with clinical features of rickets, but those
born with biochemical evidence of rickets without obvious clinical features still can be …

Incidence of maternal vitamin D deficiency in a region of Ankara, Turkey: a preliminary study

G Gür, A Abaci, AY Köksoy, A Anik… - Turkish journal of …, 2014 - journals.tubitak.gov.tr
To evaluate vitamin D levels and risk factors for vitamin D deficiency in healthy newborns
and their mothers. Materials and methods: Ninety-nine healthy pregnant women (≥ 37 …