Vitamin D deficiency in adolescent pregnancy and obstetric outcomes.

What Was Tested

The paper reports a study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc, published as an observational study.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the rates of vitamin D deficiency in adolescent pregnants and its influence on the obstetric outcomes.

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 300 women taking part.

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

A total of 300 singleton pregnant women aged between 14 and 20 years, were divided into three groups according to their gestational weeks (100 pregnant adolescents from each trimester).

Randomly selected 300 singleton pregnant women older than 20 years of age with the similar gestational ages were designed as the control group at the same time period.

How the Study Was Run

The researchers divided serum 25(OH)D levels into three categories deficiency, inadequacy and adequate levels according to the Endocrine Society guidelines.

Serum 25(OH)D levels were also evaluated according to age, seasons and gestational periods.

Adverse obstetric outcomes were recorded.

What Was Measured

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Biomarkers, Cross-Sectional Studies, Incidence, Pregnancy Complications, Pregnancy Outcome, Pregnancy in Adolescence and Seasons.

Author keywords: Adolescent, Obstetric outcomes and Vitamin D.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is an observational study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 300 women.

With several hundred people or more, it is a fairly large study for this kind of research.

Its findings take up roughly 10 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2019 (Taiwanese journal of obstetrics & gynecology), a journal based in China (Republic : 1949- ).

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