title: [Vitamin D status in Gabonese children].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyse the status of vitamin D and the influence of a supplement of vitamin D in neonates and infants during the first 6 months of life in the african equatorial environnement of Gabon.
  
  
  METHODS
  Clinical (weight, height, head circumference, and diseases) and biological (calcemia, phosphatemia, serum alkaline phosphatase activity and plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels) parameters were compared between 2 groups of children: group 1: 41 infants receving a daily supplement of 1000 IU of vitamin D, and group 2: 38 infants without vitamin D supplement.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No significant differences were observed between the 2 groups concerning clinical and biological parameters. In particular plasma levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D were normal and similar in both groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A vitamin D supplement appears to be useless in 0 to 6 months infants living in Gabon.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de biochimie de la faculté de médecine de Libreville, Gabon.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nguema-Asseko
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Ganga-Zandzou
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ovono
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lendoye
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Lemamy
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Akendengue
authors.forename: E Ngou
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Milama
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development; D019587:Dietary Supplements; D005260:Female; D005681:Gabon; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009752:Nutritional Status; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D014807:Vitamin D; C104450:25-hydroxyvitamin D