Vitamin D status in Moroccan pregnant women and newborns: reports of 102 cases.

What Was Tested

This observational study looks at Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

The aim of this study was to evaluate vitamin D status of Morrocan pregnant women and their newborns.

Why It Was Studied

Their study is being the first of its kind in Morocco, as it supports the program of systematic supplementation of pregnant women in the third quarter.

Its results have established a new program for the fight against the deficit of various nutrients, thereby intake of vitamin D has become routine.

Who Took Part

By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were teenagers, young adults and adults, both men and women.

Women included were consented to participate in the study.

How the Study Was Run

It's an observational and a cross sectional study.

The data was collected prospectively from the 1st January to 31 December 2012 in the labor room of the Souissi maternity hospital, at the Ibn Sina university center of Rabat in Morocco.

Data on epidemiological, sociodemographic and clinical characteristics was recolted by interview, physical exam and biochemistry parameters.

What Was Measured

The subject headings attached to it are Calcium, Cross-Sectional Studies, Dietary Supplements, Hospitals, Maternity, Morocco, Pregnancy Complications and Vitamin D.

The authors tagged it with the keywords newborn and pregnant woman.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is an observational study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

Its findings take up roughly 6 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2016 (The Pan African medical journal), a journal based in Uganda.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.