BDA Food Fact Sheets

Vitamin  D supplementation

References:

  1. Department of Health 1994 COMA Report 45 Weaning and the Weaning Diet London: HMSO
  2. National Diet and Nutrition Survey: children aged 1½ to 4½ years 1995 ,
  3. National Diet and Nutrition Survey: young people aged 4 to 18 years 2000
  4. National Diet and Nutrition Survey: adults aged 19 to 64 years  2004
  5. Molgaard C, Fleischer Michaelsen K. Vitamin D and bone health in early life. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 2003; 62, 823-828
  6. Shaw NJ & Pal BR, 2002.  Vitamin D deficiency in UK Asian families:  activating a new concern.  Arch Dis Child; 86:  147-149
  7. Mughal MZ, Salama H, Greenaway T, Laing I & Mawer EB, 1999.  Florid rickets associated with prolonged breast feeding without vitamin D supplementation.  BMJ; 318 (7175): 39-40
  8. Hannam S, Lee S & Sellars M, 2004.  Severe vitamin D deficient rickets in black Afro-Caribbean children.  Arch Dis Child; 89 (1):  91-92
  9. Ashraf S & Mughal MZ, 2002.  The prevalence of rickets among non-Caucasian children.  Arch Dis Child; 87:  263-264
  10. Zipitis CS, Markides GA &  Swann IL 2006 Vitamin D deficiency: primary or tertiary prevention? Arch Dis Child; in press
  11. Lawson M, Thomas M Vitamin D Concentrations in Asian children aged 2 years living in England: population survey British Medical Journal 1999;318:28
  12. Holick MF Sunlight and vitamin D for bone health and prevention of autoimmune diseases, cancers and cardiovascular disease American Journal Clinical Nutrition 2004;80(suppl):1678S-88S