Pages tagged with "Pregnancy + Dark Skin"

30 pages, most important first (overviews, then meta-analyses, then RCTs, then newest). Combine with another topic

• Darker-skinned people have more health problems (in the UK in this case) - Grimes & Campbell video with summary
• Dark skin pregnancies and Vitamin D - many studies
• Low vitamin D while pregnant – a health emergency (Indonesia in this case) – meta-analysis
• Problem pregnancies (perinatal morbidities) 3.8 X less likely in blacks taking 4,400 IU of Vitamin D - RCT
• Fewer preemies if higher Vitamin D
• Blacks have more preterm births due to low nutrients such as vitamin D
• 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)
• Pregnant while black increases chance of death – mothers 3X, infants 2X (low Vitamin D)
• COVID-19, dark skin, pregnancy - Dr. Grimes, etc.
• Low vitamin D in pregnancy linked to potentially harmful vaginal bacteria in black women
• Preterm birth more likely if dark skinned and low vitamin D (not white-skinned)
• Premature birth and infant mortality worse if dark skin (low vitamin D) - 2015
• Depressed black pregnant women should take vitamin D
• 78 percent of pregnant immigrants in Sweden had less than 10 ng low vitamin D
• Vitamin D and fertility and birth problems with dark skin
• Gestational Diabetes increasing, especially in dark skinned women (low vitamin D) - 2007
• Bone loss during black pregnancies – 4000 IU of vitamin D was not enough
• Dark-skined mothers: preeclampsia 12X more likely if gestational hypertension
• Dark skin pregnancies 2.6 times more likely to have low vitamin D
• Ethnicity and low vitamin D levels during pregnancy
• Metabolites of pregnant blacks vary with vitamin D level
• Pregnant blacks 50 pcnt more likely to be depressed if 3 ng less vitamin D
• Dark skinned pregnant women far from equator were very vitamin D deficient
• Depression in pregnant blacks strongly associated to vitamin D levels
• Very low vitamin D for first pregnancies and those with dark skin
• Vitamin D May Be a Link to Black-White Disparities in Adverse Birth Outcomes
• Pregnant women vitamin D insuficiency Black 97 Hispanic 81 White 67 percent
• 97 percent of pregnant Blacks had less than 32 ng of vitamin D - 2010