Abstract: Introduction: Vitamin D insufficiency is profoundly predominant among children around the world. The high rates of vitamin D inadequacy during childhood are of real general health pertinence, given the developing evidence that vitamin D insufficiency may assume a key part in the pathophysiology of numerous chronic diseases beyond rickets including immune system conditions, cardiovascular maladies, and cancer. Protein-energy malnutrition is likely to be associated with vitamin D intake deficiency among children.
Objective: Over the past two years, the number of studies relating vitamin D deficiency among children has increased significantly. The purpose of this study is to update and examine the evidence of the vitamin D deficiency and its relationship to children.
Methodology: Electronic databases were searched (no restriction-Nov, 2015) with no language restrictions and keywords related to children and vitamin D. We included studies of children younger than 7 years.
Results/Conclusion: the pediatric population in normal nutrition status shows a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency during the months of autumn and winter and, especially, in spring; the addition of vitamin supplements and/ or an increase in the ingestion of their natural dietary sources should be considered.
Keywords: Protein-energy malnutrition, deficiency and its relation, Vitamin D.
Title: Vitamin D deficiency and its relation to the children
Author: ALAA MAATOOQ HASIN ALWAGADANI, ABDULRAOUF HASSAN ABDULRAOUF ALAWUR, AHMED AWTHAH SAAD ALAHMARI
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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