Beyond PTH: assessing vitamin D status during early pregnancy.
Beyond PTH: assessing vitamin D status during early pregnancy.
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04164.x
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发表时间:
2011-09
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Hollis BW
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作者:
Wagner CL;Hollis BW
The new Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendation for vitamin D intake is stated to be 10 and 10–15 μg/d for the newborn infant and lactating mother, respectively (1), and represents only a marginal change from its previous recommendations (2). We have no issue with respect to the infant recommendations; however, the lactating woman’s recommendation is another matter. Our lab has been investigating this area for more than three decades and was the first to actually quantify the vitamin D compounds in human milk (3). Surprisingly, most of our data have been ignored in favour of the original recommendation–or, more appropriately,‘the estimation’–by Blumberg, Forbes and Fraser in 1963 (4).As a graduate student in human nutrition in the 1970s (BWH), the senior investigator in our lab Dr Hollis was struck by the teaching that human milk was the ‘perfect’food for the human neonate with one exception: it was inadequate with respect to vitamin D content, and rickets could result in the nursing infant if not provided with exogenous vitamin D supplementation. How could this be? What did these infants do prior to the discovery of vitamin D and how could nature have allowed this to happen? Actually, the answer is quite simple: we in medicine believed our own dogma instead of actually following the science, and thus we tried to ‘fit’our 10 μg/d recommendation to the physiology instead of applying the physiology to discover the true recommendation.