Published 10 August 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b3277
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3277

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US children are not getting enough vitamin D, studies conclude

Janice Hopkins Tanne

1 New York

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Children in the United States may be at risk of cardiovascular disease because they are not getting enough vitamin D, two studies have reported.

The studies, in the 3 August online edition of Pediatrics, both used data from the 2001-4 national health and nutrition examination survey. They were done because other studies indicated that US adults with low concentrations of vitamin D had a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, but little was known about low vitamin D concentrations in children and adolescents.

A study by Michal Melamed, an assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, and colleagues at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, measured blood concentrations of serum calcidiol (25-hydroxyvitamin D) in 6275 children and young adults aged 1 to 21 years.

A concentration of 30 ng/ml is considered sufficient. Concentrations . . . [Full text of this article]


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