title: Dietary assessment of maternal vitamin D intake and correlation with maternal and neonatal serum vitamin D concentrations at delivery.
abstract: Maternal and cord blood 25-hydroxy vitamin D concentrations are positively and significantly correlated. If an easily obtainable maternal dietary history could be used to predict maternal and secondarily cord blood vitamin D status, it would be a useful means of assessing the vitamin D adequacy of the newborn. Therefore, a single assessment of maternal dietary vitamin D intake during the last trimester of pregnancy was correlated with maternal and newborn serum vitamin D concentration. Neither the correlation between maternal dietary history of vitamin D intake and maternal serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D level nor between maternal dietary history and cord blood 25-hydroxy vitamin D level was significant. These data indicate that a single maternal dietary history is an inadequate method of predicting neonatal vitamin status at delivery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425-3313.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Hollis
authors.forename: B R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: LeVine
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Pittard
mesh_terms: D015652:25-Hydroxyvitamin D 2; D000328:Adult; D002112:Calcifediol / Q000097:blood; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D004032:Diet; D004872:Ergocalciferols / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn / Q000097:blood*; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000097:blood*; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D004872:Ergocalciferols; D014807:Vitamin D; D015652:25-Hydroxyvitamin D 2; D002112:Calcifediol