Cord blood vitamin A and vitamin D levels in relation to physical growth in exclusively breastfed infants aged 0-6 months.

What Was Tested

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

This cohort study aims to examine the relationship between cord blood vitamins A and D levels and the physical growth of exclusively breastfed infants aged 0-6 months.

Why It Was Studied

Vitamins A and D are essential for the health of pregnant women and infants.

Nevertheless, the relationship between umbilical cord blood vitamins A and D levels and the physical growth of exclusively breastfed infants remains uncertain.

Who Took Part

The age groups tagged for this paper are infants and adults, both men and women.

140 singleton mother-infant pairs were recruited in total.

Anthropometric measurements were conducted at birth, at 3 and 6 months of age, and the weight-for-age z-score (WAZ), length-for-age z-score (LAZ), head circumference-for-age z-score (HAZ), and BMI-for-age z-score (BMIZ) were calculated.

How the Study Was Run

Questionnaires were used to collect maternal and infant information, and liquid chromatography was utilized to quantify the levels of vitamins A and D in the umbilical cord blood.

Univariate and multivariate linear regression models were used for the analysis.

What Was Measured

Nevertheless, the relationship between umbilical cord blood vitamins A and D levels and the physical growth of exclusively breastfed infants remains uncertain.

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Breast Feeding, Child Development, Cohort Studies, Fetal Blood, Vitamin A and Vitamin D.

Author keywords: exclusive breastfeeding, infants, physical growth and umbilical cord blood.

What This Means in Plain Language

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

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 2024 (Frontiers in endocrinology), a journal based in Switzerland.

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