dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-12T13:53:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-12T13:53:25Z | |
dc.date.created | 2017-09-14T12:44:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Madar, Ahmed Ali Gundersen, Thomas E Haug, Anne M Meyer, Haakon E . Vitamin D supplementation and vitamin D status in children of immigrant background in Norway. Public Health Nutrition. 2017 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10852/64678 | |
dc.description.abstract | Objective
Sufficient vitamin D status during infancy is important for child health and development. Several initiatives for improving vitamin D status among immigrant children have been implemented in Norway. The present study aimed to evaluate the vitamin D status and its determinants in children of immigrant background in Oslo.
Design
Cross-sectional study.
Setting
Child health clinics in Oslo.
Subjects
Healthy children with immigrant background (n 102) aged 9–16 months were recruited at the routine one-year check-up from two child health clinics with high proportions of immigrant clients. Blood samples were collected using the dried blood spot technique and analysed for serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (s-25(OH)D) concentration using LC–MS/MS.
Results
Mean s-25(OH)D was 52·3 (sd 16·7) nmol/l, with only three children below 25 nmol/l and none below 12·5 nmol/l. There was no significant gender, ethnic or seasonal variation in s-25(OH)D. However, compared with breast-fed children, s-25(OH)D concentration was significantly higher among children who were about 1 year of age and not breast-fed. About 38 % of the children were anaemic, but there was no significant correlation between s-25(OH)D and Hb (Pearson correlation, r=0·1, P=0·33).
Conclusions
Few children in the study had vitamin D deficiency, but about 47 % of the children in the study population were under the recommended s-25(OH)D sufficiency level of ≥50 nmol/l. | en_US |
dc.language | EN | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.title | Vitamin D supplementation and vitamin D status in children of immigrant background in Norway | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.creator.author | Madar, Ahmed Ali | |
dc.creator.author | Gundersen, Thomas E | |
dc.creator.author | Haug, Anne M | |
dc.creator.author | Meyer, Haakon E | |
cristin.unitcode | 185,52,14,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Avdeling for samfunnsmedisin og global helse | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | preprint | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1493731 | |
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation | info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Public Health Nutrition&rft.volume=&rft.spage=&rft.date=2017 | |
dc.identifier.jtitle | Public Health Nutrition | |
dc.identifier.volume | 20 | |
dc.identifier.issue | 16 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 2887 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 2892 | |
dc.identifier.pagecount | 6 | |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S136898001700180X | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:no-67230 | |
dc.type.document | Tidsskriftartikkel | en_US |
dc.source.issn | 1368-9800 | |
dc.identifier.fulltext | Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/64678/4/immigrant%2Bchildren-PHN-sent%2Bversion.pdf | |
dc.type.version | SubmittedVersion | |