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VITAMIN D AND HUMAN PREGNANCY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2011

REBEKAH GRAYSON  and
MARTIN HEWISON
REBEKAH GRAYSON*
Affiliation:
Department of Fetal Medicine, Birmingham Women's Foundation Trust, B15 2TG, UK.
MARTIN HEWISON
Affiliation:
OHRC Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 615 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
*
Rebekah Grayson, Department of Fetal Medicine, Birmingham Women's Foundation Trust, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TGUnited Kingdom. Email address: rebekahgrayson@btinternet.com
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At the end of 2007, Time magazine listed the “benefits of vitamin D” as one of its top 10 medical breakthroughs for that year. Since then there has been a remarkable upsurge of interest in vitamin D, with new research advances seemingly published on a weekly basis. In particular, there has been increasing awareness of the variability of vitamin D status in populations across the globe and, significantly, a growing debate about the need for revised parameters for vitamin D supplementation. Although sub-optimal vitamin D is likely to be a widespread problem for 21st century societies, it is also clear that some groups are at much greater risk of low vitamin D status. Prominent amongst these are pregnant women and the aim of the following review article will be to discuss this problem in further detail with specific emphasis on its potential physiological and clinical impact.

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Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 2011 , pp. 67 - 90
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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