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- Title
Maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy and childhood bone mass at age 9 years: a longitudinal study.
- Authors
Javaid, M K; Crozier, S R; Harvey, N C; Gale, C R; Dennison, E M; Boucher, B J; Arden, N K; Godfrey, K M; Cooper, C; Princess Anne Hospital Study Group
- Abstract
Vitamin D insufficiency is common in women of childbearing age and increasing evidence suggests that the risk of osteoporotic fracture in adulthood could be determined partly by environmental factors during intrauterine and early postnatal life. We investigated the effect of maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy on childhood skeletal growth.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 2006, Vol 367, Issue 9504, p36
- ISSN
1474-547X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/S0140-6736(06)67922-1