Vitamin D status of Hong Kong Chinese infants.
Vitamin D deficiency is a common nutritional problem of weaning infants in many parts of the world. Hong Kong infants, who are fed with traditional rice-based weaning foods and live in crowded high rise flats, might be expected to suffer from this nutritional problem. Yet a study of 150 bottle fed infants revealed that the vitamin D intake from fortified milk and cereals was more than half of the recommended amount throughout the first 18 months and that the serum 25-OH vitamin D concentration of the infants at 18 months was normal. The effect of sunlight was also evident.
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Department of Paediatrics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital.
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Swaminathan
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D002112:Calcifediol / Q000097:blood; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D013472:Sunlight; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D014808:Vitamin D Deficiency / Q000453:epidemiology*
D014807:Vitamin D; D002112:Calcifediol