{"id":4260,"date":"2016-10-31T13:51:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T13:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc.soton.ac.uk\/web2\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2016-10-31T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T13:51:04","slug":"vitamin-d-needs-differ-between-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/mrclec\/2016\/10\/31\/vitamin-d-needs-differ-between-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D needs differ between women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/lifestyle\/health\/pregnant-women-who-pile-pounds-9140854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vitamin D needs differ between women (Daily Mirror)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A study by the University of Southampton has shown that pregnant women respond differently to vitamin D supplements. It was found that the supplement was less effective at increasing the levels of vitamin D in pregnant women if they had their babies in the winter, have low levels of vitamin early in pregnancy or gain more weight. The scientists suggested that the levels of vitamin D given should be tailored according to an individual\u2019s risk factors. Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy could harm foetal development and the child\u2019s long-term skeletal health. Professor Nicholas Harvey, of the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, said: &#8220;It is important for pregnant women to have sufficient levels of vitamin D for the health of their baby. Our study findings suggest that in order to optimise vitamin D concentrations through pregnancy, the supplemental dose given may need to be tailored to a woman&#8217;s individual circumstances, such as the anticipated season of delivery.&#8221; The study was published in the Endocrine Society\u2019s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Also reported in the Daily Mail and the i newspaper.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Vitamin D needs differ between women (Daily Mirror) &nbsp; A study by the University of Southampton has shown that pregnant women respond differently to vitamin D supplements. It was found that the supplement was less effective at increasing the levels of vitamin D in pregnant women if they had their babies in the winter, have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5281,"featured_media":3875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/mrclec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/475\/2015\/10\/nutrients-mothershealth.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/mrclec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/mrclec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/mrclec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/mrclec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/mrclec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/mrclec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/mrclec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/mrclec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/mrclec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/mrclec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}