Vitamin D levels are very low in millions of American children, Latest Analysis Confirms
Millions of American children 1-11 years of age can suffer from sub-optimal levels of vitamin d side effects, as a large-scale national representative has been published in the November issue of Pediatrics, accompanied by an editorial.
The study, led by Jonathan Mansbach, MD, Children's Hospital Boston is the updated analysis of vitamin D levels in American children. It is based on growing evidence that levels have below what is considered healthy, and that black and Hispanic children have a particularly high risk please.
Both the optimal amount of vitamin D and healthy blood levels of vitamin D are discussed in the medical community. Today, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children should vitamin D levels of 50 nmol / L (20 ng / ml) have to. However, other studies have seen in adults that should vitamin D levels less than 75 nmol / L (30 ng / ml) and possibly 100 nmol / L (40 ng / ml) to reduce the risk of heart disease and of developing certain cancers.
Mansbach and colleagues at the University of Colorado at Denver and Massachusetts General Hospital used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to a level of vitamin D in a nationally representative sample of nearly 5,000 children examined 2001 to 2006. Including the entire population of the United States suggests that their analysis that 20 percent of children fell below the recommended 50 nmol / L. In addition, had more than two-thirds of all children below 75 nmol / L, 80 percent of Hispanic children and 92 percent the black non-Hispanics.
"If 75 nmol / L or more, the time showed that a normal, healthy levels of vitamin D, then there is a lot more vitamin D in the U.S., people think," Mansbach said.
Mansbach and his co-authors point out that all children take vitamin D supplements because of the generally low level and found potential health benefits of vitamin D to normal levels increase. Vitamin D improves bone health and prevent rickets in children suggest, and recent studies that there are a variety of common childhood illnesses, including respiratory infections, breathing difficulties, childhood and the associated prevent winter itch.
Although solar radiation produces a good amount of vitamin d foods can also cause skin cancer. Dermatologists and AAP recommends using a sunscreen, but it effectively blocks the ability of our skin to vitamin D. produce Moreover, children with more highly pigmented skin more sun exposure than fair-skinned children to adequate amounts of vitamin D. receive vitamin D can also food such as the liver and fatty fish are produced, but not nearly all American children consume these foods in large quantities sufficient to cover the vitamin D, which are made available by the summer sun or vitamin D.
In the study, children who are multi vitamins that are vitamin D levels and higher total, but this represents less than half of all children. Mansbach recommends that all children vitamin D supplements to take, especially those living in high latitudes where the sun is low in winter.
"We need to perform randomized controlled trials to understand whether vitamin D improves the health of these comprehensive," Mansbach said. "But today there are many studies that show the relationship between low vitamin D and poor health. Therefore, we believe that many American children are likely to benefit from more vitamin D."
This work was funded by Cave National Institutes of Health.
