Association of 25-hydroxyvitamin D with Hb and lead in children: a Chinese population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency, as well as their association with Hb and elevated blood lead levels (BLL) in children in China.

Design

A cross-sectional and 1-year retrospective study.

Setting

Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, China.

Subjects

Children aged from 6 months to 14 years living in south-west China who were taken to physical examinations (January-December 2011).

Results

Of 1218 children included in the study, 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentration (mean 33.18 (sd 16.48) ng/ml) was deficient in 21.6% and insufficient in 27.4%, which were higher than the prevalence of both anaemia at 8.5% and elevated BLL (Pb ≥ 10 μg/dl) at 1.8%, but l

SUBMITTER: Chang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10282316 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature