Vitamin D concentrations in Asian children aged 2years living in England: population survey
BMJ 1999; 318 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.318.7175.28 (Published 02 January 1999) Cite this as: BMJ 1999;318:28
- Margaret Lawson, senior lecturer in paediatric nutrition (m.lawson@ich.ucl.ac.uk)a,
- Margaret Thomas, senior researcherb
- aChildhood Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH
- bOffice for National Statistics, London SW1V 2QQ
- Correspondence to: Dr Lawson
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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 1994and 1996of infant feeding practices of mothers of Bangladeshi, Indian, or Pakistani origin living in England.1 A blood sample was taken during October-November 1996from a subsample of children aged 2years 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 618of 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 …