Elizabeth Szalay, MD, Professor of Pediatric Surgery, University of New Mexico, discusses the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency in children in the USA. Only 16% of children in New Mexico were recently shown to have adequate levels of vitamin D, indicating the need for vitamin D supplementation.

Reading:

Marcason W. Vitamin D: are children and adolescents at risk for deficiency? J Am Diet Assoc. 2009 May;109(5):952. No abstract available.

Grant CC, Wall CR, Crengle S, Scragg R. Vitamin D deficiency in early childhood: prevalent in the sunny South Pacific. Public Health Nutr. 2009 Feb 23:1-9

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