date:Sep 19, 2012
n important impact at the population level, added Morales.
Study details
In the current study, Morales and her colleagues measured vitamin D levels in 1,820 pregnant women living in four areas of Spain all of whom form part of the INfancia y Medio Ambiente Project.
The data showed that 20% of the women were vitamin D-deficient and another 32% had insufficient levels of the vitamin. The researchers revealed that the babies of mothers whose prenatal vitamin D level was deficient scored around