- Estimation of Vitamin D Levels in Neonatal Cord Blood Sample & its Correlation with Maternal Vitamin D Levels During Pregnancy
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Estimation of Vitamin D Levels in Neonatal Cord Blood Sample & its Correlation with Maternal Vitamin D Levels During Pregnancy
Afr. J. Biomed. Res. Vol. 27, No.1s (September) 2024
Dr Wajid Rana 1, Dr Jabeena Banoo 2, Dr Sharvil Dhar 3, Dr Ariba Afeeh 4*, Dr Akhil
Preet Kau r5, Dr Aamil Haameem 6
1 department of Pediatrics, Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences & Hospital (india)
2 Gynaecology Senior Resident, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, SMGS Hospital.
3’4*’5Department of Pediatrics, Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences & Hospital
6 Anesthesiology, Geisinger Medical Center Danville Pennsylvania USA
Background: high prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency has been observed in pregnant Indian women and their newborns, variation in the prevalence of Vitamin D during pregnancy has been observed from various parts of India which may be due to differences in the ethnicity, food habits, and geographical location. Maternal vitamin D deficiency has been shown to negatively impact the fetus, increasing the risks of intrauterine growth restriction, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and preterm birth. These conditions can significantly affect newborn health and development.
Aim & Objective: To find out the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in newborns and Correlation of maternal and neonatal vitamin d levels.
Methods: The present study is a cross-sectional observational study conducted from July 2023 to September 2023 in the Perinatology section of Department of Pediatrics, at a tertiary care hospital of Jammu city. After selecting pregnant women of age 20 to 35 years with singleton term pregnancy, written informed consent was taken during antennal period and blood sample for vitamin D level was collected along with their routine lab investigations and was sent for estimating vitamin D levels. The samples of the new born were taken from cord blood and then were sent for vitamin D level. Results: There was a positive correlation between the Vitamin D levels of the mother and the neonates at birth. 97.1% of the newborns born to the mothers with deficient levels of vitamin D had deficient vitamin D levels (p-value 0.02)
Conclusion: Vitamin D deficiency is widely prevalent in our region with 81.3% neonates having VDD. Vitamin D deficiency in the mothers is also widely prevalent. Vitamin D deficiency is more prevalent among the early terms as compared to the full terms. Vitamin D deficiency is more prevalent in the small for gestational age infants as compared to the appropriate for gestational age infants.
Relevance: Since there is a paucity of data in our setup and also because of long term complication of vitamin D deficiencies in neonates we decided to perform a study to evaluate the levels of vitamin D in neonates and correlating the neonatal vitamin D levels with the maternal levels.
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Links to infant-child and Vitamin D subjects
A few recent studies of low vitamin D in infants/Children
- Children had a better response to Vitamin D given every 2 weeks than daily – RCT Aug 2024
- Growing pains associated with low Vitamin D - many studies
- Urinary Tract Infection and Vitamin D – several studies
- Growing pains reduced in 91% of children with a single dose of Vitamin D – July 2024
- Bedwetting more frequent if Vitamin D levels less than 14 ng – June 2024
- Vitamin D levels are low during Recurrent Wheezing - Feb 2024
- Diarrhea and Vitamin D - several studies
- Childhood Cancers - Vitamin D can help - many studies
- Caries in deciduous teeth about 2X more likely if low vitamin D – Review Nov 2023
- Tic disorders associated with Vitamin D - several studies
- Anemia 8X more likely in infants if low vitamin D – Sept 2023
- 94 percent of children with Chronic Neurological Diseases had low vitamin D – April 2023
- Low-energy fractures in children with low vitamin D - many studies