Vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy – a failure of public health policy?
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Methods Sample women with sufficient stored serum were randomly selected from among all women who had delivered in year 2008/09. Serum vitamin D levels were determined using liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry). Vitamin D levels were analyzed with respect to ethnicity (as marker for skin tone), calendar quartile, body mass index trimester and parity. Deficiency was defined as < 25 nmol/L, insufficiency 25 75 nmol/L, and adequacy > 75 nmol/L.
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