Maternal Intake of Vitamin D During Pregnancy May Help Protect Against Childhood Wheezing Illnesses

A new study by researchers at the Harvard Medical School have found that taking vitamin D during pregnancy can help reduce a child's risk of developing a wheezing illness during their first three years of life. Administering food frequency questionnaires in the first and second trimesters to 1,194 mothers, investigators averaged the women's daily vitamin D intake to be 548 IU during pregnancy. In their findings, researchers noted that, for every 100IU increase in maternal vitamin D, a child's risk of developing wheezing or asthma decreased by 10%. Investigators plan to continue following these children in order to see if any receive a physicians diagnosis of asthma.
Source: Paula Moyer
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