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UK infants are the least likely to get Vitamin D in Europe – political action overdue – April 2018

Prevention of rickets and osteomalacia in the UK: political action overdue.

Arch Dis Child. 2018 Apr 16. pii: archdischild-2018-314826. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2018-314826. [Epub ahead of print]
Uday S1,2, Högler W1,2.

The consequences of vitamin D and dietary calcium deficiency have become a huge public health concern in the UK. The burden of disease from these deficiencies includes rickets, and hypocalcaemic seizures, dilated cardiomyopathy and mostly occult myopathy and osteomalacia. The increasing burden of the disease is intrinsically linked to ethnicity and the population demographic changes in the UK. Three facts have led to the resurfacing of the English disease: (1) the UK has no ultraviolet sunlight for at least 6 months of the year, (2) dark skin produces far less vitamin D than white skin per unit ultraviolet light exposure, and (3) non-European Union immigration over the last century. To date, the UK government demonstrates incomplete understanding of these three facts, and its failure to adjust its prevention programmes to changing demographics is endangering the health and life of UK residents with dark skin, of whom infants are the most vulnerable. Establishing accountability through the implementation of monitored antenatal and infantile supplementation programmes and mandatory food fortification is overdue.

Free PDF at http://sci-hub.tw/10.1136/archdischild-2018-314826
Has Europe map an lots of tables and suggestions of how to increased vitamin D levels


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