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Low socioeconomic status predicts vitamin D status in a cross-section of Irish children
Vitamin D is essential for bone and muscle health with adequate status in childhood crucial for normal skeletal development. We aimed to investigate vitamin D status in a convenience sample (n = 1226) of Irish children (aged 1–17 years) who had serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) tested by request o...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9334117/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35912305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jns.2022.57 |
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author | Scully, Helena Laird, Eamon Healy, Martin Crowley, Vivion Walsh, James Bernard McCarroll, Kevin |
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description | Vitamin D is essential for bone and muscle health with adequate status in childhood crucial for normal skeletal development. We aimed to investigate vitamin D status in a convenience sample (n = 1226) of Irish children (aged 1–17 years) who had serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) tested by request of their GP at a Dublin Hospital between 2014 and 2020. We examined predictors including age, sex, season and socioeconomic status (SES). Vitamin D deficiency (<30 nmol/l) was prevalent affecting 23 % and was more common in disadvantaged areas (34 %) and in those aged >12 v. ≤12 years (24 % v. 16 %, P = 0⋅033). The greatest predictor was SES (disadvantaged v. affluent, OR 2⋅18, CI 1⋅34, 3⋅53, P = 0⋅002), followed by female sex (OR 1⋅57, CI 1⋅15, 2⋅14, P = 0⋅005) and winter season (October to February, OR 1⋅40, CI 1⋅07, 1⋅84, P = 0⋅015). A quarter of our sample of children were deficient, rising to one-third in those in disadvantaged areas. Females and those aged over 12 years had a higher prevalence of deficiency. Public health strategies to improve vitamin D status in Irish children, including systematic food fortification may need to be considered to address this issue. |
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spelling | pubmed-93341172022-07-29 Low socioeconomic status predicts vitamin D status in a cross-section of Irish children Scully, Helena Laird, Eamon Healy, Martin Crowley, Vivion Walsh, James Bernard McCarroll, Kevin J Nutr Sci Research Article Vitamin D is essential for bone and muscle health with adequate status in childhood crucial for normal skeletal development. We aimed to investigate vitamin D status in a convenience sample (n = 1226) of Irish children (aged 1–17 years) who had serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) tested by request of their GP at a Dublin Hospital between 2014 and 2020. We examined predictors including age, sex, season and socioeconomic status (SES). Vitamin D deficiency (<30 nmol/l) was prevalent affecting 23 % and was more common in disadvantaged areas (34 %) and in those aged >12 v. ≤12 years (24 % v. 16 %, P = 0⋅033). The greatest predictor was SES (disadvantaged v. affluent, OR 2⋅18, CI 1⋅34, 3⋅53, P = 0⋅002), followed by female sex (OR 1⋅57, CI 1⋅15, 2⋅14, P = 0⋅005) and winter season (October to February, OR 1⋅40, CI 1⋅07, 1⋅84, P = 0⋅015). A quarter of our sample of children were deficient, rising to one-third in those in disadvantaged areas. Females and those aged over 12 years had a higher prevalence of deficiency. Public health strategies to improve vitamin D status in Irish children, including systematic food fortification may need to be considered to address this issue. Cambridge University Press 2022-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9334117/ /pubmed/35912305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jns.2022.57 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Scully, Helena Laird, Eamon Healy, Martin Crowley, Vivion Walsh, James Bernard McCarroll, Kevin Low socioeconomic status predicts vitamin D status in a cross-section of Irish children |
title | Low socioeconomic status predicts vitamin D status in a cross-section of Irish children |
title_full | Low socioeconomic status predicts vitamin D status in a cross-section of Irish children |
title_fullStr | Low socioeconomic status predicts vitamin D status in a cross-section of Irish children |
title_full_unstemmed | Low socioeconomic status predicts vitamin D status in a cross-section of Irish children |
title_short | Low socioeconomic status predicts vitamin D status in a cross-section of Irish children |
title_sort | low socioeconomic status predicts vitamin d status in a cross-section of irish children |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9334117/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35912305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jns.2022.57 |
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