Maternal Vitamin

Notes from Nutrition 2018 in Boston

Study links vitamin A levels to infant growth

13-Jun-2018 By Adi Menayang

A study presented at the Nutrition 2018 conference in Boston suggests that adequate vitamin A levels may support infant growth—and that one Midwestern city may have a vitamin A ‘public health problem.’

Poor maternal vitamin D linked to increased childhood obesity

16-Feb-2018 By Tim Cutcliffe

Vitamin D deficiency during early pregnancy may heighten the chance of producing overweight children according to a new study in Pediatric Obesity

Maternal vitamin D has no effect on children's bone health

19-Mar-2013 By Nathan Gray

Supplementation with vitamin D during pregnancy has no significant association with children's later bone heath, according o the largest ever study on maternal vitamin D supplementation.

Study calls for maternal vitamin D supplementation

21-Nov-2012

New data that ‘strongly implicates’ maternal levels of vitamin D with the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) in children means there is now a strong case for supplementation of pregnant women in countries where sunlight levels are low between October and...