{"id":6115,"date":"2018-05-29T12:03:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6115"},"modified":"2018-10-08T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T17:20:45","slug":"vitamin-d-supplements-during-pregnancy-may-reduce-fetal-or-newborn-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/vitamin-d-supplements-during-pregnancy-may-reduce-fetal-or-newborn-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin D supplements during pregnancy may reduce fetal or newborn mortality <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A review and meta-analysis of 24 randomized clinical trials involving 5,405 pregnant women examined the effects of vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy on several infant outcomes. Babies who had experienced prenatal supplementation had higher calcium levels and weights at birth and throughout the first year. Low-dose supplementation was also associated with reduced risk of fetal or neonatal mortality.<\/p>\n<p><em>JAMA Pediatrics<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Published May 29, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2018-05\/jn-sev052418.php\" target=\"_blank\">News release<\/a> from JAMA Pediatrics)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapediatrics\/fullarticle\/10.1001\/jamapediatrics.2018.0302\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>URL after publication<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong> Shu Qin Wei, University of Montr\u00e9al &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:shu.qin.wei@umontreal.ca\" target=\"_blank\">shu.qin.wei@umontreal.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review and meta-analysis of 24 randomized clinical trials involving 5,405 pregnant women examined the effects of vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy on several infant outcomes. Babies who had experienced prenatal supplementation had higher calcium levels and weights at birth and throughout the first year. Low-dose supplementation was also associated with reduced risk of fetal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/4156710848_f38a9ec453_z.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1AD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6185,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions\/6185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}