Vitamin D deficiency and mild to moderate anemia in young North Indian children: A secondary data analysis.

What Was Tested

The paper reports a study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in the context of anemia, published as a randomized controlled trial.

The aim of this study was to examine the association between vitamin D deficiency and anemia status among young children in the resource-poor setting of northern urban India.

Multivariable logistic and multinomial logistic regressions were used to examine the association between vitamin D and anemia status at baseline.

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 6 children taking part.

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

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was a randomized study.

The children were allocated by chance, so the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc group and the comparison group should start out alike.

The researchers measured serum vitamin D status, hemoglobin, plasma vitamin B12, folate, soluble transferrin receptor, and homocysteine levels at baseline.

What Was Measured

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Anemia, Comorbidity, India, Vitamin D and Vitamin D Deficiency.

The authors tagged it with the keywords Iron deficiency and Young North Indian children.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 6 children in people with anemia.

With fewer than 40 people, it is a small study, so it is better read as an early signal for further research than as a settled answer.

The abstract goes on to report its results in about 7 sentences; this page does not restate them, so read the paper for the findings and their limits.

The publication is from 2019 (Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)), a journal based in United States.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, Anemia research.