ArticleArchives of disease in childhood2006
Hypovitaminosis D among healthy adolescent girls attending an inner city school.
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- Vitamin D Deficiency and Association With Body Mass Index and Lipid Levels in Hispanic American Adolescents.Global pediatric health · 2017Article
- Long-term adherence and effects on grip strength and upper leg performance of prescribed supplemental vitamin D in pregnant and recently pregnant women of Somali and Swedish birth with 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency: a before-and-after treatment study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2016Article
- Association between vitamin D status and serum parathyroid hormone concentration and calcaneal stiffness in Japanese adolescents: sex differences in susceptibility to vitamin D deficiency.Journal of bone and mineral metabolism · 2016Article
- Vitamin D and skeletal health in infancy and childhood.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2014Review
- Vitamin D status and predictors of hypovitaminosis D in Italian children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study.European journal of pediatrics · 2013Article
- Vitamin D deficiency in early life and the potential programming of cardiovascular disease in adulthood.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2013Review
- Prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency in Swiss teenagers with appendicular fractures: a prospective study of 100 cases.Journal of children's orthopaedics · 2012Article
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Abstract
aimsTo determine the prevalence of hypovitaminosis D among healthy adolescent schoolgirls attending an inner city multiethnic girls' school.
methodsFifty one (28%) of 182 girls (14 white, 37 non-white; median age 15.3 years, range 14.7-16.6) took part in the study. Biochemical parameters, dietary vitamin D intake, muscle function parameters, duration of daily sunlight exposure (SE), and percentage of body surface area exposed (%BSA) were measured.
resultsThirty seven (73%) girls were vitamin D deficient (25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) <30 nmol/l) and 9 (17%) were severely deficient (25OHD <12.5 nmol/l). The median (range) 25OHD concentration of white girls (37.3 nmol/l (18.3-73.3)) was higher than that of non-white girls (14.8 nmol/l (5.8-42.8)). The median (range) concentration of parathyroid hormone in white girls (2.8 pmol/l (1.0-3.7)) was lower than that of non-white girls (3.4 pmol/l (1.7-34.2)). Serum Ca, inorganic phosphate, alkaline phosphatase, and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D were not different in white and non-white girls. For the whole group, 25OHD concentration was related to the estimated SE and %BSA, but not to estimated intake of vitamin D. In white girls, the estimated SE and %BSA were significantly higher than that of non-white girls. The median times taken to complete the Gower's manoeuvre and grip strength were not different in the two groups; these variables were not related to serum 25OHD.
conclusionsHypovitaminosis D is common among healthy adolescent girls; non-white girls are more severely deficient. Reduced sunshine exposure rather than diet explains the difference in vitamin D status of white and non-white girls.
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