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Anonymous
New research shows that pregnant women can with inadequate vitamin D levels adversely affect bone health in the long term health of their children. Maternal vitamin D during pregnancy influences childhood bone mass, vitamin D status is often low in women of childbearing age, and evidence that the risk of fractures (due to osteoporosis) in adulthood could be partly caused by environmental factors during pregnancy and childhood can be determined. A recent study examined the effect ofMaternal vitamin D during pregnancy on childhood skeletal growth. In a longitudinal study, researchers from 198 children born in 1991 and 1992. Physical, nutrition and vitamin D status of mothers were studied during pregnancy and the children were examined at the age of 9 to the original characteristics correlated with maternal body size and bone density. Forty-nine (31%) mothers had insufficient vitamin D levels, while another 28 (18%) had deficient levels of orderPregnancy. Vitamin D deficiency in women during pregnancy was associated with reduced spine density of the whole body and lumbar bone in children aged between 9. Maternal vitamin D deficiency is common during pregnancy and now looks with a reduced bone mineral accumulation in young people gather in childhood. Vitamin D supplementation of pregnant women, especially during the winter months could be improved bone health and reduce long-term risk of osteoporosis in leadershipher ...
