Odada Sumba

Vitamin D Deficiency Increases the Risk of Stunting and Other Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: Results from a Perinatal Cohort Study in Kenya

Eunice Toko, Odada Sumba, Fredrick Opinya, Paul Baresel, Arlene Dent, Julia Finkelstein, Rosemary Rochford & Saurabh Mehta · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015

Objectives: Vitamin D may protect against adverse pregnancy outcomes. The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa has not been extensively studied and no studies have examined vitamin D status at multiple time points during pregnancy and their a...