Pages tagged with "Pregnancy + Dark Skin"

• Fewer preemies with higher Vitamin D
• Problem pregnancies (perinatal morbidities) 3.8 X less likely in blacks taking 4,400 IU of Vitamin D - RCT
• Hemorrhage after birth is 4X more likely if low vitamin D (dark skin, etc)
• Dark-skinned people have low vitamin D (Obese pregnant women in UK in this case)
• Preterm Birth 2.7X more likely if low vitamin D (dark skin in this case)
• Low vitamin D while pregnant – a health emergency (Indonesia in this case) – meta-analysis
• COVID-19, dark skin, pregnancy - Dr. Grimes, etc.
• Low vitamin D in pregnancy linked to potentially harmful vaginal bacteria in black women
• Pregnant while black increases chance of death – mothers 3X, infants 2X (low Vitamin D)
• Depressed black pregnant women should take vitamin D
• Bone loss during black pregnancies – 4000 IU of vitamin D was not enough
• Preterm birth more likely if dark skinned and low vitamin D (not white-skinned)
• Dark skin pregnancies 2.6 times more likely to have low vitamin D
• Premature birth and infant mortality worse if dark skin (low vitamin D) - 2015
• Ethnicity and low vitamin D levels during pregnancy
• Gestational Diabetes increasing, especially in dark skinned women (low vitamin D) - 2007
• Metabolites of pregnant blacks vary with vitamin D level
• Dark-skined mothers: preeclampsia 12X more likely if gestational hypertension
• 78 percent of pregnant immigrants in Sweden had less than 10 ng low vitamin D
• Depression in pregnant blacks strongly associated to vitamin D levels