Maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy and childhood bone mass at age 9 years: a longitudinal study.

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BACKGROUND: Vitamin D insufficiency is common in women of childbearing age and increasing evidence suggests that the risk of osteoporotic fracture in adulthood could be determined partly by environmental factors during intrauterine and early postnatal life. We investigated the effect of maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy on childhood skeletal growth. METHODS: In a longitudinal study, we studied 198 children born in 1991-92 in a hospital in Southampton, UK; the body build, nutrition, a...

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Authors: Javaid, M; Crozier, SR; Harvey, N; Gale, C; Dennison, E

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Lancet
• Volume: 367
• Issue: 9504
• Pages: 36-43
• Publication date: 2006-01-01
• DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(06)67922-1
• EISSN: 1474-547X
• ISSN: 0140-6736
• Language: English
• Keywords: Life Style; Infant, Newborn; Great Britain; Bone Density; Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Female; Princess Anne Hospital Study Group; Adult; Pregnancy; Male; Anthropometry; Pregnancy Complications; Child; Nutritional Status; Growth; Humans; Birth Weight; Longitudinal Studies; Vitamin D Deficiency