BMJ 1999;318:28-28 ( 2 January )

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Vitamin D concentrations in Asian children aged 2 years living in England: population survey

Editorial by Wharton Clinical review p   39

Margaret Lawson, senior lecturer in paediatric nutrition, ^a Margaret Thomas, senior researcher. ^b

^a Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, ^b Office for National Statistics, London SW1V 2QQ

Correspondence to: Dr Lawson m.lawson@ich.ucl.ac.uk

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The Social Survey Division of the Office for National Statistics on behalf of the Department of Health carried out a survey between 1994 and 1996 of infant feeding practices of mothers of Bangladeshi, Indian, or Pakistani origin living in England.¹ A blood sample was taken during October-November 1996 from a subsample of children aged 2 years for analysis of iron and 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (vitamin D) concentrations. Details for iron concentration are published elsewhere. ^{1 2} We here report the vitamin D concentration.

	Subjects, methods, and results

Vitamin D concentration was measured in 618 of the children. No evidence was found of bias influencing the selection of this subgroup, which seems to be representative of Asian children in England. The table shows serum 25-hydroxycholecalciferol concentrations for the three groups in comparison with data from the national diet and nutrition survey of preschool children.³ Between 20% and 34% of children in the three ethnic groups had values of vitamin D below 25 nmol/l, a value . . . [Full text of this article]

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