Low maternal vitamin D status and fetal bone development: cohort study.

Journal article

Recent findings suggest that maternal vitamin D insufficiency during pregnancy has consequences for the offspring's bone health in later life. To investigate whether maternal vitamin D insufficiency affects fetal femur growth in ways similar to those seen in childhood rickets and study the timing during gestation of any effect of maternal vitamin D status, we studied 424 pregnant women within a prospective longitudinal study of maternal nutrition and lifestyle before and during pregnancy (Sou...

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Authors: Mahon, P; Harvey, N; Crozier, S; Inskip, H; Robinson, S

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 14-19
• Publication date: 2010-01-01
• DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.090701
• EISSN: 1523-4681
• ISSN: 0884-0431
• Language: English
• Keywords: Femur; SWS Study Group; Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Fetal Development; Humans; Bone Development; Vitamin D; Pregnancy; Ultrasonography, Prenatal; Cohort Studies; Young Adult; Female; Adult; Fetus; Bone and Bones