Vitamin D Supplementation in Pregnancy and Lactation and Infant Growth.
Daniel E RothShaun K MorrisStanley ZlotkinAlison D GernandTahmeed AhmedShaila S ShantaEszter PappJill KorsiakJoy ShiM Munirul IslamIshrat JahanFarhana K KeyaAndrew R WillanRosanna WeksbergMinhazul MohsinQazi S RahmanPrakesh S ShahKellie E MurphyJennifer StimecLisa G PellHuma QamarAbdullah Al MahmudPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2018)
In a population with widespread prenatal vitamin D deficiency and fetal and infant growth restriction, maternal vitamin D supplementation from midpregnancy until birth or until 6 months post partum did not improve fetal or infant growth. (Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01924013 .).