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Adherence to the infant vitamin D supplementation policy in Ireland; data from two longitudinal, prospective birth cohort studies by Andrea Hemmingway; Dawn Fisher; Teresa Berkery; Deirdre M. Murray; Mairead E Kiely is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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Abstract The high prevalence of maternal deficiency and the low vitamin D content of breastmilk places newborns and infants at particular risk of vitamin D deficiency. In response to an increase in the incidence of nutritional rickets, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland published an interim infant vitamin D supplementation policy in 2007, which was implemented by the Health Service Executive in Ireland in May 2010. This recommends that all infants be given a 5μg exclusive vitamin D3 supplement daily from birth to 12 months. As adherence is not monitored nationally and the policy has not been evaluated, the aim of this study was to conduct a detailed evaluation of supplementation practices across two maternal-infant cohort studies. Data from the prospective BASELINE (recruited 2008–2011) and COMBINE (recruited 2015–2017) birth cohorts, based in Cork, Ireland, were used to examine supplementation practices. After supplementation policy implementation, BASELINE collected vitamin D supplement use data (n = 1528) at 2, 6 and 12 months. In COMBINE, 7 study visits from birth to 12 months allowed continuous collection of detailed longitudinal supplementation data in 364 participants. Use
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- Author
- Andrea Hemmingway; Dawn Fisher; Teresa Berkery; Deirdre M. Murray; Mairead E Kiely
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press (CUP); CABI Publishing (ISSN 0029-6651)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)