Comparison of sun exposure versus vitamin D supplementation for pregnant women with vitamin D deficiency.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in this clinical trial publication.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of sun exposure versus vitamin D supplementation for pregnant women with vitamin D deficiency.

Why It Was Studied

Maternal vitamin D deficiency is widespread health problem that is more important in pregnant women, which affects fetus growth and bone development.

Who Took Part

The study group was 87 women.

The age groups tagged for this paper are young adults and adults, women only.

This prospective clinical trial was performed on 87 pregnant women with vitamin D deficiency.

How the Study Was Run

After the delivery, 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels were measured in the same previous center.

Moreover, weight, height, and head circumference of fetus were measured at delivery in both groups and compared with each other.

What Was Measured

PubMed files the paper under topics including Calcifediol, Iran, Pregnancy Complications, Sunlight, Vitamin D, Vitamin D Deficiency and Vitamins.

The authors tagged it with the keywords 25-hydroxyvitamin D and Sunlight exposure.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is a clinical trial of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 87 women.

Results are reported in around 3 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 2019 (The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians), a journal based in England.

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