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Lehtonen, Eveliina;
Ormisson, Anne;
Nucci, Anita;
Cuthbertson, David;
Sorkio, Susa;
Hyytinen, Mila;
Alahuhta, Kirsi;
Berseth, Carol;
Salonen, Marja;
Taback, Shayne;
Franciscus, Margaret;
González-Frutos, Teba;
E Korhonen, Tuuli;
L Lawson, Margaret;
J Becker, Dorothy;
P Krischer, Jeffrey;
Knip, Mikael;
M Virtanen, Suvi;
Mandrup-Poulsen, Thomas;
Arjas, Elias;
Lernmark, Åke;
Schmidt, Barbara;
Krischer, Jeffrey P.;
Åkerblom, Hans K.;
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Use of vitamin D supplements during infancy in an international feeding trial
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- Media type: E-Article
- Title: Use of vitamin D supplements during infancy in an international feeding trial
- Contributor: Lehtonen, Eveliina; Ormisson, Anne; Nucci, Anita; Cuthbertson, David; Sorkio, Susa; Hyytinen, Mila; Alahuhta, Kirsi; Berseth, Carol; Salonen, Marja; Taback, Shayne; Franciscus, Margaret; González-Frutos, Teba; E Korhonen, Tuuli; L Lawson, Margaret; J Becker, Dorothy; P Krischer, Jeffrey; Knip, Mikael; M Virtanen, Suvi; Mandrup-Poulsen, Thomas; Arjas, Elias; Lernmark, Åke; Schmidt, Barbara; Krischer, Jeffrey P.; Åkerblom, Hans K.; [...]
- imprint: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014
- Published in: Public Health Nutrition
- Language: English
- DOI: 10.1017/s1368980013001122
- ISSN: 1368-9800; 1475-2727
- Keywords: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ; Nutrition and Dietetics ; Medicine (miscellaneous)
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- Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec id="S1368980013001122_abs1" sec-type="general"><jats:title>Objective</jats:title><jats:p>To examine the use of vitamin D supplements during infancy among the participants in an international infant feeding trial.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec id="S1368980013001122_abs2" sec-type="general"><jats:title>Design</jats:title><jats:p>Longitudinal study.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec id="S1368980013001122_abs3" sec-type="general"><jats:title>Setting</jats:title><jats:p>Information about vitamin D supplementation was collected through a validated FFQ at the age of 2 weeks and monthly between the ages of 1 month and 6 months.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec id="S1368980013001122_abs4" sec-type="subjects"><jats:title>Subjects</jats:title><jats:p>Infants (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> 2159) with a biological family member affected by type 1 diabetes and with increased human leucocyte antigen-conferred susceptibility to type 1 diabetes from twelve European countries, the USA, Canada and Australia.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec id="S1368980013001122_abs5" sec-type="results"><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>Daily use of vitamin D supplements was common during the first 6 months of life in Northern and Central Europe (>80 % of the infants), with somewhat lower rates observed in Southern Europe (>60 %). In Canada, vitamin D supplementation was more common among exclusively breast-fed than other infants (e.g. 71 % <jats:italic>v</jats:italic>. 44 % at 6 months of age). Less than 2 % of infants in the USA and Australia received any vitamin D supplementation. Higher gestational age, older maternal age and longer maternal education were study-wide associated with greater use of vitamin D supplements.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec id="S1368980013001122_abs6" sec-type="conclusion"><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>Most of the infants received vitamin D supplements during the first 6 months of life in the European countries, whereas in Canada only half and in the USA and Australia very few were given supplementation.</jats:p></jats:sec>
- Access State: Open Access