A study of relationship between maternal serum vitamin D levels during peripartum period and neonatal birth weight

Authors

  • Gurpreet K. Dhillon Department of Pediatrics, 166 Military Hospital, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India
  • Sunil K. Rai Department of Pediatrics, INHS ASVINI, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  • Harpreet S. Dhillon Department of Psychiatry, 166 Military Hospital, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India
  • Shibu Sasidharan Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Level III Hospital, Goma, Congo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20202621

Keywords:

Low birth weight, New-born, Vitamin D deficiency

Abstract

Background: An observational study was undertaken to study the relationship between maternal serum vitamin D levels during peripartum period and neonatal birth weight.

Methods: This study was done on 569 patients to study the relationship between maternal serum vitamin D levels during peripartum period and neonatal birth weight. The data included was maternal serum samples (taken during peri-partum period) and neonatal birth weight. The primary objective of this project was to assess the vitamin D levels in maternal serum and to study its relationship, if any, with birth weight in the neonates.

Results: A total of 569 samples of maternal serum were analyzed for serum 25(OH)D levels out of which 457(80%) mothers were found to have sufficient, 101(18%) insufficient and 11(2%) deficient Vitamin D levels as per US Endocrinological society guidelines. Out of total 569 newborns, 104 (18.27%) were low birth weight (LBW) and 465 (81.27%) were normal birth weight (NBW). Out of total LBW (104), 19(18.27%) were born to vitamin D deficient (VDD) mothers and 85 (81.72%) were born to vitamin D sufficient (VDS) mothers. Out of total NBW(465), 86(18.45%) were born to VDD mothers and 379 (81.17%) were born to VDS mothers. These results were not statistically significant (p=0.76456749).

Conclusions: Maternal 25(OH)-vitamin D status during late pregnancy did not have any statistically significant effect on the neonatal birth weight.

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