Results of a large study suggest that maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy has an effect on the neurocognitive development of offspring.You won't. It won't.
The study showed that pregnant women with insufficient serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)-vitamin D) levels (≤46 nmol/L) had about a 2-fold higher risk of having a child with clinically significant language difficulties compared with pregnant women whose vitamin D levels were greater than 70 nmol/L.
"These results fit with the increasing recognition that adequate vitamin D levels are very important in fetal development," first author Andrew J. O. Whitehouse, PhD, from the Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia in Subiaco, told Medscape Medical News.
"We would like to see our findings replicated. Beyond that, the next step is to conduct randomized controlled trials to determine whether vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy may help promote optimal development of the offspring," Dr. Whitehouse said.
Except by another BS study.
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