Association of vitamin D intake and serum levels with fertility: results from the Lifestyle and Fertility Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the role of vitamin D intake and serum levels on conception of clinical pregnancy and live birth.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

Academic medical centers.

Patient(s)

Healthy, nulliparous women, age 18-39 years, and their male partners.

Intervention(s)

None.

Main outcome measure(s)

Clinical pregnancy and live birth were compared between those who did or did not meet the vitamin D estimated average requirement (EAR) intake (10 μg/d) and with serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) considered at risk for inadequacy or deficiency (<50 nmol/L) or sufficient (≥50 nmol/L).

Result(s)

Among 132 women, 37.1% did not meet the vitamin D EAR and 13.9% had serum levels at risk for inadequacy or deficiency. Clinical pregnancies

SUBMITTER: Fung JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5545066 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature