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Prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency among children in southern china: A cross-sectional survey.
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- Vitamin D levels and its influencing factors in children and adolescents in mainland China: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2025Pooled it
- The relationship of vitamin D deficiency and childhood diarrhea: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Association of food allergy in children with vitamin D insufficiency: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of pediatrics · 2023Pooled it
- Systematic Literature Review of the Nutrient Status, Intake, and Diet Quality of Chinese Children across Different Age Groups.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
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- Contemporary factors affecting serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations in Chinese children aged 2-6 years.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- Association of Serum Vitamin A and D Status with Neuropsychological Development Outcomes in Children Aged 4 to 24 Months: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study.Iranian journal of public health · 2025Article
- Effects of HIV exposure on anemia and vitamin D nutritional status in children aged 6-24 months: a hospital-based cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Association of Vitamin D, Nerve Growth Factor (NGF), Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), and Glial Cell-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) with Development in Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association Between Vitamin D Levels and Developmental Status in Short-Stature Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- High prevalence and seasonal patterns of vitamin D deficiency in children and adolescents in Central China: a three-year single-center study.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Vitamin D Status among 2-18-Year-Old Romanian Pediatric Patients: A Single-Center Study.Nutrients · 2024Article
- The vitamin D status in a Chinese osteogenesis imperfecta population and its correlation with bone metabolic markers and bone density.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- The Impact of Vitamin D Deficiency on Infants' Health.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels and Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Relationships of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in obese children: A possible strategy to promote early screening of NAFLD.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
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- Association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations and obesity in one-year-old Chinese infants.Food science & nutrition · 2021Article
- Prevalence and predictors of vitamin D deficiency in young African children.BMC medicine · 2021Article
- Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency among 460,537 children in 825 hospitals from 18 provinces in mainland China.Medicine · 2020Observational
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Abstract
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with numerous public health issues. Limited data are available for children in southern China, a region that receives abundant sunlight. We aimed to estimate the 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels in children in that area, and to determine seasonal variations in serum 25(OH)D levels. A total of 16,755 children aged 0 to 6 years, who visited the Guangdong Women and Children's Hospital for health examination between January 2016 and May 2017, were included in the present study. The serum 25(OH)D levels ranged from 10.5 to 307.4 nmol/L (mean ± standard deviation: 78.5 ± 26.3 nmol/L). The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency were 10.8% and 39.0%, respectively. The mean serum 25(OH)D level in spring (71.8 ± 24.9 nmol/L) was lower than that in other seasons. From January to April, we found a relatively high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency, both of which were also found to increase with age. Logistic regression analysis revealed that vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency were significantly associated with age and season. Deficiency and insufficiency of vitamin D are common among children in southern China, despite the area receiving sufficient sunlight.
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