Healthy pregnancies need lots of vitamin D

Most were taking 2,000 to 7,000 IU daily for >50% of pregnancy
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Problem	Vit. D Reduces	Evidence
0. Chance of not conceiving	3.4 times	Observe
1. Miscarriage	2.5 times	Observe
2. Pre-eclampsia	3.6 times	RCT
3. Gestational Diabetes	3 times	RCT
4. Good 2nd trimester sleep quality	3.5 times	Observe
5. Premature birth	2 times	RCT
6. C-section - unplanned	1.6 times	Observe
Stillbirth - OMEGA-3	4 times	RCT - Omega-3
7. Depression AFTER pregnancy	1.4 times	RCT
8. Small for Gestational Age	1.6 times	meta-analysis
9. Infant height, weight, head size      within normal limits		RCT
10. Childhood Wheezing	1.3 times	RCT
11. Additional child is Autistic	4 times	Intervention
12.Young adult Multiple Sclerosis	1.9 times	Observe
13. Preeclampsia in young adult	3.5 times	RCT
14. Good motor skills @ age 3	1.4 times	Observe
15. Childhood Mite allergy	5 times	RCT
16. Childhood Respiratory Tract visits	2.5 times	RCT

RCT = Randomized Controlled Trial

   Note: There are about 20 other health improvements which are < 1.3 times

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As a result of huge decline in vitamin D levels in past 40 years < 7% of women now have sufficient vitamin D

Few whites, Fewer Hispanics, and No Blacks have > 40 ng of Vitamin D
 Chart PDF is on VitaminDWiki

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A clinical trial in hospitals gave Vitamin D to 500 pregnant woman reduced premature births by 78% in non whites
Note: have gone-beyond Random Clinical Trials, and trials are now giving good level of vitamin D to all pregnant women

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See also PREGNANCY in VitaminDWiki

Overview Pregnancy and vitamin D
Iodine Deficiency During Pregnancy – many studies
Pregnancy helped by Magnesium - many studies
Reasons to have especially low levels of Vitamin D
Dark skin, Diabetes, Gut, (Multiple Sclerosis, Obesity, recent pregnancy, twins, concealing clothing, allergic to the sun. avoid the sun for other reasons

• Low Vitamin D results in adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes – Wagner meta-analysis March 2017
• Vitamin D once during pregnancy reduced infant health care costs (300 times ROI) – RCT Dec 2015
• Ensure a healthy pregnancy and infant with as little as $20 of Vitamin D
• Pregnancy category has 922 items
• Costs of Pregnancy much reduced by Vitamin D
  For many pregnancies: 2000 IU helps, 4,000 IU is good, 6,000 IU is great
  Includes number needed to treat
• Preterm birth rate reduced 57 percent by Vitamin D – Nov 2015 Hispanic: 79% reduction
• Vitamin D of 32 to 60 ng is needed before, during, and after pregnancy – Dec 2012
• Routine monitoring of vitamin D during pregnancy is mandatory (Engl. and Port.) - May 2015
• Ensure a healthy pregnancy and infant with as little as $20 of Vitamin D
• Improved births with 2,000 IU vitamin D during pregnancy in India - RCT Feb 2015
  Just 2,000 IU of vitamin D helps, > 4,000 is even better
• Near the end of pregnancy 50,000 IU vitamin D weekly was great – RCT April 2013 weekly doses have been proven to be useful as well
• Birth weight and length increased with high levels of vitamin D – meta-analysis March 2015
• Vitamin D Webinar - cost of pre-term birth etc- Baggerly Nov 2013
• Pregnancy and Vitamin D – meta-analysis April 2015
• Pregnant women are vitamin D deficient - Map 2013
• More vitamin D needed during pregnancy – meta-analysis Oct 2014

61 Pregnancy AND Intervention studies

• See Vitamin D Interventions during pregnancy 22+ RCT as of May 2016
• Overview Pregnancy and vitamin D

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See also INFANT-CHILD in VitaminDWiki

• Extreme preterm survival 30 percent less likely if little sunshine 23-28 weeks – June 2015
• Respiratory tract infection eliminated in 36 percent of people by 4000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT Sept 2015
• Infant-Child category listing has 854 items along with related searches
• Bone fractures in children requiring surgery were 55X more likely with low vitamin D – June 2015
• 3X more kids were vitamin D deficient when entering UK hospitals than 4 years before – Oct 2014
• 75 percent of unexplained sudden infant deaths had inadequate level of vitamin D – April 2013
• Reduce Childhood Growing pains 1.5 times Vitamin D given to ALL children
• Low vitamin D is leading cause of death age 0 - 5 years
• See Vitamin D Interventions for children 15+ RCT as of May 2016

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See also WOMEN in VitaminDWiki

• Fertility problem (PCOS) reduced by vitamin D, etc: many studies
• Vitamin D helps women in many ways – review April 2015
• ALL of the top 10 health problems of women are associated with low vitamin D
• Overview Women and Vitamin D
• Women category listing has 196 items along with related searches
• Irregular menstrual cycles associated with low vitamin D – March 2015
• Perhaps women have lower levels of Vitamin D because vitamin D hides in fat
• Recurrent urinary tract infection 4X more likely if low vitamin D – Aug 2013
• See Vitamin D Interventions for Women 6 RCT as of May 2016

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See other in VitaminDWiki

• One pill every two weeks gives you all the vitamin D most adults need ~3700 IU average per day
• Can start benefitting from vitamin D in a week if use a loading dose
  2-3 months is a LONG time to wait for vitamin D repletion during 9 month pregnancy
• 40 ng of Vitamin D is good before, during, and after pregnancy, and actually is good for ALL humans at ALL stages of life
• 20 cent vitamin D pill similar to 2 hours sunbathing at 60 degree latitude – RCT Aug 2013

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