Poor vitamin D status increases the risk of anemia in school children: National Food and Nutrition Surveillance.
Nutrition. 2018 Mar;47:69-74. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2017.09.008. Epub 2017 Oct 12.
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Items in both categories Iron and Infant-Child are listed here:
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- Early brain development helped by Iron, Iodine, Vitamin D, Omega-3. Zinc etc. – Oct 2021
- Vitamin D deficiency 2.5 X more likely in iron-deficient children – Dec 2018
- Anemia in children 3.5 X more likely if low vitamin D – March 2018
- Autistic children have lower levels of Iron, Vitamin D, Magnesium, etc – Oct 2017
- Breastfed infants 6 times more likely to deficient in Vitamin D and Iron – Aug 2015
- Anemia 1.9X more likely in white children having lowish vitamin D – Jan 2014
- Review of Micronutrients such as vitamin D for women and childhood – Aug 2013
- Infants who have iron deficiency anemia are 4X more likely to be vitamin D deficient – March 2013
Items in both categories Iron and Women are listed here
- Iron increased slightly by small amount of Vitamin D for a short time – RCT Feb 2019
- Iron in blood decreases with vitamin D in males, increases with premenopausal females (Korea)– May 2017
- Low iron in teenage girls is 2X more likely if low vitamin D – 2014
- 2X increased chance of anemia (low iron) associated with low vitamin D – Sept 2013
- Review of Micronutrients such as vitamin D for women and childhood – Aug 2013
- Deficiencies of iron and vitamin D are interrelated in women – March 2013
- Female Athlete health problems may be due to lack of vitamin D and Iron – July 2012
- Why do Saudi postmenopausal women have higher level of vitamin D – Mar 2011
Vitamin D pages containing "anemia" in title 15 pages as of June 2021
Nikooyeh B1, Neyestani TR2.
- 1 Laboratory of Nutrition Research, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute and Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
- 2 Laboratory of Nutrition Research, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute and Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. tneyestani@sbmu.ac.ir.
OBJECTIVES:
This study aimed to investigate the association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) concentrations and the risk of anemia in a large cohort of children with consideration for the effects of sex, body mass index (BMI), serum intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) concentrations, and iron level status.
METHODS:
A total of 937 children (493 boys, 444 girls) ages 9 to 12 y were enrolled in a cross-sectional study. The children underwent various examinations including anthropometric measurements and blood sampling.
RESULTS:
Overall, 13.3% of the children were anemic and 64.2% and 28.1% of the subjects had a vitamin D deficiency (<25 nmol/L) and insufficiency (25-50 nmol/L), respectively. Approximately 13% of the children had concurrent low hemoglobin and hypovitaminosis D levels. The prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in the group of children with anemia was 96.8% compared with 91.6% in the non-anemic group (P = 0.046). Mean 25(OH)D concentrations were significantly lower in the anemic children compared with the non-anemic children (19.6 ± 13.3 vs. 24.0 ± 23.1 nmol/L; P = 0.003). After controlling for sex and BMI, children with a vitamin D deficiency were almost 3.45 times more likely to be anemic compared with children with a vitamin D sufficiency (95% confidence interval CI, 1.21-9.81). The increased risk of anemia was found to start significantly at 25(OH)D < 44 nmol/L (17.6 ng/mL; odds ratio: 2.29; 95% CI, 1.07-4.91, P = 0.032).
CONCLUSIONS:
These findings strongly suggest an association between low circulating concentrations of 25(OH)D and anemia in a large, representative sample of children, even after adjustment for sex, age, BMI, and iPTH.