Poor vitamin D status increases the risk of anemia in school children: National Food and Nutrition Surveillance.
Nutrition. 2018 Mar;47:69-74. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2017.09.008. Epub 2017 Oct 12.
- Iron deficiency is a cause of Vitamin D deficiency
- Low vitamin D - anemia 2.2X more likely (no surprise) – meta-analysis Aug 2015
Items in both categories Iron and Infant-Child are listed here:
- Vitamin D deficiency 2.5 X more likely in iron-deficient children – Dec 2018
- Anemia in children 3.5 X more likely if low vitamin D – March 2018
- Breastfed infants 6 times more likely to deficient in Vitamin D and Iron – Aug 2015
- Anemia 1.9X more likely in white children having lowish vitamin D – Jan 2014
- Review of Micronutrients such as vitamin D for women and childhood – Aug 2013
- Infants who have iron deficiency anemia are 4X more likely to be vitamin D deficient – March 2013
Items in both categories Iron and Women are listed here
- Iron increased slightly by small amount of Vitamin D for a short time – RCT Feb 2019
- Iron in blood decreases with vitamin D in males, increases with premenopausal females (Korea)– May 2017
- Low iron in teenage girls is 2X more likely if low vitamin D – 2014
- 2X increased chance of anemia (low iron) associated with low vitamin D – Sept 2013
- Review of Micronutrients such as vitamin D for women and childhood – Aug 2013
- Deficiencies of iron and vitamin D are interrelated in women – March 2013
- Female Athlete health problems may be due to lack of vitamin D and Iron – July 2012
- Why do Saudi postmenopausal women have higher level of vitamin D – Mar 2011
Nikooyeh B1, Neyestani TR2.
- 1 Laboratory of Nutrition Research, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute and Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
- 2 Laboratory of Nutrition Research, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute and Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. tneyestani at sbmu.ac.ir.
OBJECTIVES:
This study aimed to investigate the association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) concentrations and the risk of anemia in a large cohort of children with consideration for the effects of sex, body mass index (BMI), serum intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) concentrations, and iron level status.
METHODS:
A total of 937 children (493 boys, 444 girls) ages 9 to 12 y were enrolled in a cross-sectional study. The children underwent various examinations including anthropometric measurements and blood sampling.
RESULTS:
Overall, 13.3% of the children were anemic and 64.2% and 28.1% of the subjects had a vitamin D deficiency (<25 nmol/L) and insufficiency (25-50 nmol/L), respectively. Approximately 13% of the children had concurrent low hemoglobin and hypovitaminosis D levels. The prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in the group of children with anemia was 96.8% compared with 91.6% in the non-anemic group (P = 0.046). Mean 25(OH)D concentrations were significantly lower in the anemic children compared with the non-anemic children (19.6 ± 13.3 vs. 24.0 ± 23.1 nmol/L; P = 0.003). After controlling for sex and BMI, children with a vitamin D deficiency were almost 3.45 times more likely to be anemic compared with children with a vitamin D sufficiency (95% confidence interval CI, 1.21-9.81). The increased risk of anemia was found to start significantly at 25(OH)D < 44 nmol/L (17.6 ng/mL; odds ratio: 2.29; 95% CI, 1.07-4.91, P = 0.032).
CONCLUSIONS:
These findings strongly suggest an association between low circulating concentrations of 25(OH)D and anemia in a large, representative sample of children, even after adjustment for sex, age, BMI, and iPTH.
PMID: 29429539 DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2017.09.008