Maternal serum and breast milk vitamin D levels: findings from the Universiti Sains Malaysia Pregnancy Cohort Study.

What Was Tested

This clinical trial looks at Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in the context of pregnancy and breastfeeding: safety notes.

This study aimed to assess the adequacy of maternal vitamin D status by measuring maternal serum and breast milk 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels and to determine the association between maternal serum and milk 25(OH)D levels.

Why It Was Studied

Vitamin D deficiency has become a global health issue in pregnant women.

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 102 women taking part.

PubMed tags the participants as women only.

Blood samples from pregnant women aged 19 to 40 years were drawn in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy, while breast milk samples at delivery, 2, 6 and 12 months postpartum were collected to analyze for 25(OH)D levels.

A total of 102 pregnant women were included in the analysis.

How the Study Was Run

Data was obtained from the Universiti Sains Malaysia Pregnancy Cohort Study.

This study was conducted from April 2010 to December 2012 in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia.

What Was Measured

PubMed files the paper under topics including Cohort Studies, Lactation, Milk, Human, Pregnancy Complications, Pregnancy Trimester, Second, Pregnancy Trimester, Third and Vitamin D.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is a clinical trial of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 102 women in people with pregnancy and breastfeeding: safety notes.

Results are reported in around 6 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 2014 (PloS one), a journal based in United States.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, Pregnancy and breastfeeding: safety notes research.