Vitamin D Status of Hong Kong Chinese Infants
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Paediatrica
- Vol. 78 (2) , 303-306
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1651-2227.1989.tb11074.x
Abstract
Vitamin D deficiency is a common nutritional problem of weaning infants in many parts of the world. Hong Kong infants, who are fed with traditional rice-based weaning foods and live in crowded high rise flats, might be expected to suffer from this nutritional problem. Yet a study of 150 bottle fed infants revealed that the vitamin D intake from fortified milk and cereals was more than half of the recommended amount throughout the first 18 months and that the serum 25-OH vitamin D concentration of the infants at 18 months was normal. The effect of sunlight was also evident.Keywords
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