title: Vitamin D Intake in Very Low Birth Weight Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
abstract: It is unknown how often preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units achieve the American Academy of Pediatrics-recommended daily intake of 400 international units of Vitamin D. We studied 378 preterm infants with birth weight 1500 g or less admitted to our neonatal intensive care unit, 151 infants before and 227 infants after daily vitamin D-intake monitoring was introduced. Infants were stratified into 2 groups: extremely low birth weight (<1000 g) and Very low birth weight (1000-1500 g). Monitoring of daily intake coincided with significant improvement in vitamin D intake in both extremely low birth weight and very low birth weight groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Albany Medical Center, NY.
authors.forename: Upender K
authors.initials: UK
authors.lastname: Munshi
authors.forename: Pauline D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Graziano
authors.forename: Kara
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Meunier
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ludke
authors.forename: Angel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rios
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D052577:Infant, Extremely Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D019102:Infant, Very Low Birth Weight; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D008297:Male; D009752:Nutritional Status; D018529:Nutritional Support; D064167:Recommended Dietary Allowances; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014807:Vitamin D
chemical_list: D014807:Vitamin D