Pages tagged with "Newborn"

• Newborns were 72X more likely to be Vitamin D deficient above the Arctic Circle
• Highly likely that neonate will be vitamin D deficient if the mother was
• Chinese neonates 3.6 X more likely to have low vitamin D if previous month was cold
• Higher vitamin D level in mother results in higher level in newborn
• Higher Vitamin D-binding protein is good (neonates in this case)
• Majority of South Asian children and youths have low vitamin D (85 pcnt of neonates)
• No differences in newborn anthropometry for very low vs. low vitamin D mothers
• Low vitamin D newborns getting cows milk formula more likely to get allergies – RCT
• Newborn vitamin D level is often lower than maternal, this study says it is double
• Treatment of neonate sepsis greatly aided by Vitamin D – RCT
• Vitamin D treats Gestational Diabetes, decreases hospitalization and newborn complications – meta-analysis
• Immature lungs in immature newborns – Vitamin D helps
• Vitamin D needed by pregnant women and neonates (in developing countries now too - 2 tables)
• Vitamin K guidelines for neonates need to be reconsidered
• Rapid newborn breathing (transient tachypnea) associated with low vitamin D
• Neonates were 288 gram (0.6 lbs) heavier if mother stopped smoking while pregnant
• Rancid Omega-3 increased the odds of newborn mortality by 13 times (rats)
• Newborn Vitamin D - single 50,000 IU is better than daily – RCT
• Twice as many neonates got vitamin D after instructions to doctors were simplified.
• Inflammation (CRP) 3X higher in Winter-Spring neonates with low vitamin D