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- Title
Asociaciones entre los niveles de vitamina D y los marcadores de glucosa en mujeres embarazadas y sus bebés en Puerto Rico.
- Authors
Palacios, Cristina; Trak-Fellermeier, Maria Angelica; Melendez, Marytere; Campos, Maribel; Pomeroy, Jeremy; Kai Guo; Franks, Paul W.; Joshipura, Kaumudi; Guo, Kai
- Abstract
<bold>Introduction: </bold>Objectives: low vitamin D during pregnancy is common and could adversely affect health outcomes. This study evaluated vitamin D status during pregnancy and early in life, and its association with glucose metabolism. Methods: maternal serum 25(OH)D, glucose, and insulin levels were measured longitudinally during pregnancy in Hispanic women with overweight/obesity (n = 31) and their infants at birth and 4 months. Results: insulin and HOMA-IR levels were higher among women with vitamin D below adequate levels compared to those with adequate levels in pregnancy (p < 0.05). Late in pregnancy, as vitamin D increased by one unit (ng/mL), insulin decreased by 0.44 units and HOMA-IR by 0.09 units. Maternal vitamin D late in pregnancy was correlated with infant vitamin D levels at birth (r = 0.89; p < 0.01) and 4 months (r = 0.9; p = 0.04), and with glucose (r = 0.79; p = 0.03) and insulin (r = 0.83; p = 0.04) at 4 months. Conclusion: maternal vitamin D status was associated with maternal and infant glucose metabolism in this sample.
- Subjects
VITAMIN D deficiency; GLUCOSE metabolism; MATERNAL health; INFANT health; OBESITY
- Publication
Nutrición Hospitalaria, 2021, Vol 38, Issue 6, p1224
- ISSN
0212-1611
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.20960/nh.03600