Routine screening for vitamin D deficiency in  early pregnancy: past its due date?

Ebeling, Peter R

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb02999.x

Topics

Endocrine system diseases

Women's health

Environment and public health

Global health

Screening plus equitable provision of vitamin D supplements could mitigate many adverse outcomes

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NorthWest Academic Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC.

Correspondence: peterre@unimelb.edu.au

Competing interests:

I have received two research grants, one from sanofi-aventis, who market cholecalciferol in Australia, and one from DiaSorin in the US, who manufacture an assay for measurement of serum 25(OH)D. In addition, I am speaking at meetings for sanofi-aventis and DiaSorin later this year.

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