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Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency and Its Associations with Skin Color in Pregnant Women in the First Trimester in a Sample from Switzerland.
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- Effects of vitamin D in pregnancy on maternal and offspring health-related outcomes: An umbrella review of systematic review and meta-analyses.Nutrition & diabetes · 2024Pooled it
- The Gestational Effects of Maternal Bone Marker Molecules on Fetal Growth, Metabolism and Long-Term Metabolic Health: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Pooled it
- Prediction models and questionnaires developed to predict vitamin D status in adults: a systematic review.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2020Pooled it
- The Relationship between Maternal Nutrition during Pregnancy and Offspring Kidney Structure and Function in Humans: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2018Pooled it
- Neutrophil extracellular traps in pregnancy complications.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Intrapartum vitamin D levels a predictor of new-born anthropometry: An observational study in a teaching hospital of Eastern India.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- Vitamin D and Atopic Dermatitis-A Mere Correlation or a Real Supportive Treatment Option?Nutrients · 2025Review
- Gestational vitamin D concentration and child cognitive development: a longitudinal cohort study in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Program.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
- The Sunshine Paradox: Unraveling Risk Factors for Low Vitamin D Status Among Non-Pregnant Women in Lebanon.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Vitamin D: A key player in COVID-19 immunity and lessons from the pandemic to combat immune-evasive variants.Inflammopharmacology · 2024Review
- Melanometry for objective evaluation of skin pigmentation in pulse oximetry studies.Communications medicine · 2024Review
- Hypovitaminosis D in university workers in Southern Ecuador: interactions between gender and lifestyle.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- A comprehensive review on the impact of calcium and vitamin D insufficiency and allied metabolic disorders in females.Food science & nutrition · 2023Review
- Vitamin D and parathyroid hormone in the umbilical cord blood - Correlation with light and dark maternal skin color.Food science & nutrition · 2022Article
- Particulate matter may have a limited influence on maternal vitamin D levels.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Perspective: Darwinian Applications to Nutrition-The Value of Evolutionary Insights to Teachers and Students.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Article
- Vitamin D status: a U-shaped relationship for SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity in UK healthcare workers.BMJ open respiratory research · 2022Observational
- Smoking behavior and circulating vitamin D levels in adults: A meta-analysis.Food science & nutrition · 2021Review
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Abstract
Vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy has negative clinical consequences, such as associations with glucose intolerance, and has been shown to be distributed differently in certain ethnic groups. In some countries, a difference in the rate of vitamin D deficiency was detected in pregnant women depending on their skin color. We examined the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (<20 ng/mL) in women in early pregnancy in Switzerland and evaluated the association of skin color with vitamin D deficiency. In a single-center cohort study, the validated Fitzpatrick scale and objective melanin index were used to determine skin color. Of the 204 pregnant women included, 63% were vitamin D deficient. The mean serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration was 26.1 ng/mL (95% confidence interval (CI) 24.8-27.4) in vitamin D-sufficient women and 10.5 ng/mL (95% CI 9.7-11.5) in women with deficiency. In the most parsimonious model, women with dark skin color were statistically significantly more often vitamin D deficient compared to women with light skin color (OR 2.60; 95% CI 1.08-6.22; adjusted for age, season, vitamin D supplement use, body mass index, smoking, parity). This calls for more intense counseling as one policy option to improve vitamin D status during pregnancy, i.e., use of vitamin D supplements during pregnancy, in particular for women with darker skin color.
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