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Low Vitamin D Tied to a Pregnancy Risk

Low Vitamin D Tied to a Pregnancy Risk

by The Daily Eye Team February 5 2014, 2:29 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 30 secs

Using preserved blood samples of pregnant women, researchers have found that low vitamin D levels are associated with an increased risk for severe preeclampsia, a serious and sometimes fatal disorder of pregnancy.

Preeclampsia is characterized by high blood pressure and excess protein in the urine.

The study, published online in Epidemiology, used 3,703 blood samples taken between 1959 and 1966 from women at an average of 21 weeks gestation. More than half of the women had vitamin D levels lower than 50 nanomoles per liter, which the National Institutes of Health considers inadequate for overall health, and 717 had mild or severe preeclampsia.

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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.


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