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- Vitamin D Deficiency During Development Permanently Alters Liver Cell Composition and Function
- Future health problems if low D while pregnant
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Vitamin D Deficiency During Development Permanently Alters Liver Cell Composition and Function
Front. Endocrinol., 12 May 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2022.860286
Kassidy Lundy1, John F. Greally2, Grace Essilfie-Bondzie1, Josephine B. Olivier1, Reanna Doña-Termine1, John M. Greally1 and Masako Suzuki1*
1 Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States
2 Retired, Galway, IrelandVitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin, plays a critical role in calcium homeostasis, the immune system, and normal development. Many epidemiological cohort studies globally have found high prevalence rates of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency, recognized as an important health issue that needs to be solved. In particular, reproductive age and pregnant women low in vitamin D status may confer risks of diseases like obesity on their offspring. While observational studies have suggested associations between prenatal vitamin D deficiency and metabolic phenotypes in offspring, not yet determined is whether prenatal vitamin D deficiency permanently alters the development of the liver, a major metabolic organ. We tested the histopathology and the transcriptomic profiles of livers from male C57BL/6J mice exposed to prenatal vitamin D deficiency through a maternal dietary intervention model. We found that prenatal vitamin D deficiency increases the prevalence of histopathological changes in the liver, and alters its gene expression profile. Cell subtype proportion analysis showed that the liver of prenatal vitamin D deficiency alters non-parenchymal cells of the liver, specifically macrophages, a subset of endothelial cells, and dendritic cells.
Our results indicate the long-term memory of prenatal vitamin D deficiency exposure in the adult liver, a potential contributor to offspring health risks.
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Future health problems if low D while pregnant
Obesity
- Low vitamin D in womb linked to more weight at age 6 – May 2012
- Infant risk of obesity increased by 50 percent if low vitamin D during pregnancy – Sept 2015
- Overweight children associated with low vitamin D during pregnancy – 2015, 2018
- Child 49 percent higher risk of being overweight if preeclampsia during pregnancy – Sept 2017
Child
- Childhood Asthma risk greatly reduced if mothers were given 4,400 IU Vitamin D daily – RCT 2019
- ADHD 3.7 X higher risk if depressed pregnancy (low vitamin D) – Dec 2020
- Childhood allergies (Atopy) 4.8 X more likely if low vitamin D in early pregnancy – Aug 2019
- Little sun in first trimester, 2.9 X more likely to have learning disabilities – June 2019
- Low Vitamin D decreases fertility and increases subsequent autism, ADHD, etc – Feb 2018
Adult
- Autoimmune disorders associated with low vitamin D during pregnancy – Nov 2019
- More UV during first trimester, less Osteoporosis in offspring – June 2019
- Multiple Sclerosis much more likely if low vitamin D during pregnancy –many studies
- Vitamin D food fortification during pregnancy reduced gestational diabetes in daughters by 13 percent – Nov 2018
- Schizophrenia increased 40 percent for Spring births after Danes stopped vitamin D fortification – April 2014
Season of birth
- Diseases correlated to month of birth – 2008
- Association between season of birth and suicide – perhaps vitamin D – Sept 2012
Vitamin D is needed during pregnancy -
55 Meta-analyses This list is automatically updated
- Pregnancy and offspring health - umbrella of 250,000 pregnancies - meta-analysis May 2024
- Vitamin D reduces: pre-eclampia 1.6 X, postpartum dep. 3.6 X, autism 1.5X etc. - meta-analysis March 2024
- Vitamin D supplementation decreased the risk of preeclampsia by 39% – meta-analysis Feb 2024
- Yet another reason to take Vitamin D while pregnant – fight COVID - meta-analysis May 2023
- Vitamin D during pregnancy increased child’s bone mineral density – meta-analysis April 2023
- Preeclampsia reduced by 33 percent if high vitamin D – meta-analysis Feb 2023
- Maternal pregnancy problems if Vitamin D is less than 40 ng – meta-analysis Oct 2022
- Worse COVID during 3Q pregnancy if 2.5 ng lower Vitamin D – meta-analysis Sept 2022
- Miscarriage 1.6 X more likely if low vitamin D – meta-analysis May 2022
- Recurrent Miscarriage 4X more likely if low vitamin D – meta-analysis June 2022
- Pregnancy problems (LBW, PTB, SGA) associated with low vitamin D, 42nd meta-analysis – March 2022
- Low Vitamin D associated with preeclampsia - meta-analysis Feb 2022
- Low Vitamin D associated with pre-eclampsia -40th meta-analysis – Feb 2022
- Small vitamin D doses while pregnant do not decrease infant allergies – meta-analysis Feb 2022
- Anemia 1.6 X more likely during pregnancy if low Vitamin D – meta-analysis Dec 2021
- Vitamin D reduces preeclampsia, gestational diabetes and hypertension - 38th meta-analysis Dec 2021
- Need at least 6,000 IU daily while breastfeeding to eliminate Vitamin D deficiency – meta-analysis Oct 2021
- Gestational diabetes risk reduced 1.5X by Vitamin D – meta-analysis March 2021
- Gestational Diabetes – increased risk if poor Vitamin D Receptor – 2 Meta-Analyses 2021
- Small vitamin D doses given during pregnancy do not reduce childhood asthma – meta-analysis Dec 2020
- Multiple Sclerosis 40 percent more likely if mother had low vitamin D – meta-analysis Jan 2020
- Pregnancies helped by Vitamin D (insulin and birth weight in this case) – meta-analysis Oct 2019
- Preeclampsia 2.7 X less likely if 50,000 IU of Vitamin D every 2 weeks – meta-analysis Sept 2019
- Autism risk increased 30 percent by Cesareans (both low vitamin D) – meta-analysis Sept 2019
- Vitamin D treats Gestational Diabetes, decreases hospitalization and newborn complications – meta-analysis March 2019
- Birth size and weight increased by Vitamin D – meta-analysis Feb 2019
- Pregnancies helped by Vitamin D in many ways – 27th meta-analysis Jan 2019
- Vitamin D supplementation reduced SGA, fetal mortality, infant mortality – JAMA Meta – May 2018
- Gestational Diabetes 39 percent more likely if insufficient Vitamin D – Meta-analysis March 2018
- Preeclampsia reduced 2X by Vitamin D, by 5X if also add Calcium – meta-analysis Oct 2017
- Preeclampsia risk reduced 60 percent if supplement with Vitamin D (they ignored dose size) – meta-analysis Sept 2017
- Small for gestational age is 1.6 X more likely if mother was vitamin D deficient – meta-analysis Aug 2017
- Miscarriage 2 times more likely if low vitamin D – meta-analysis May 2017
- Fewer than half of pregnancies will get even 20 ng of vitamin D with 800 IU daily dose – meta-analysis May 2017
- Low Vitamin D results in adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes – Wagner meta-analysis March 2017
- Bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy increased prematurity risk by 60 percent - meta-analysis 1999
- Preterm birth rate reduced by 43 percent with adequate Vitamin D supplementation – meta-analysis Feb 2017
- Vitamin D during pregnancy reduces risk of childhood asthma by 13 percent – meta-analysis Dec 2016
- Vitamin D helps during pregnancy – meta-analysis Feb 2016
- Preterm birth 30 percent more likely if low vitamin D – meta-analysis May 2016
- Preterm birth extended by 2 weeks with Omega-3 – Meta-analysis Nov 2015
- Gestational Diabetes Mellitus 1.5X more likely if low vitamin D – meta-analysis Oct 2015
- Infant wheezing 40 percent less likely if mother supplemented with vitamin D, vitamin E, or Zinc – meta-analysis Aug 2015
- Birth weight and length increased with high levels of vitamin D – meta-analysis March 2015
- Pregnancy and Vitamin D – meta-analysis April 2015
- More vitamin D needed during pregnancy – meta-analysis Oct 2014
- Preeclampsia rate cut in half by high level of vitamin D – meta-analysis March 2014
- Preeclampsia 2.7X more frequent if low vitamin D – meta-analysis Sept 2013
- 2X more preeclampsia when vitamin D less than 30 ng, etc. - meta-analysis March 2013
- 2X more likely to have preeclampsia if less than 20 ng of vitamin D – Meta-analysis Jan 2013
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