• Aust Fam Physician · Mar 2015

    Multicenter Study

    A comparison of vitamin D levels in two antenatal populations in regional Western Australia--'Tjindoo Ba Thonee Thurra': sunshine for the pregnant belly.

    • Clare Willix, Sandra Rasmussen, Sharon Evans, and Veronica Walshe.
    • FRACGP FACRRM DRANZCOG, General Practitioner, Rural Clinical School of Western Australia; South West Aboriginal Medical Service Bunbury, WA.
    • Aust Fam Physician. 2015 Mar 1; 44 (3): 141144141-4.

    BackgroundThere is a known increased risk of vitamin D deficiency in darker skinned people living in in temperate latitudes, but there is limited literature specifically on Australian Aboriginal women and their vitamin D status in pregnancy.MethodsThis paper reports the findings of a prospective cohort study comparing vitamin D levels in a group of pregnant Aboriginal women with a group of pregnant non-Aboriginal women living in the same town in Western Australia.ResultsAboriginal patients from the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service (ACCHS) had lower serum vitamin D levels (mean 46.7, SD 21.7 nmol/L), compared with their 
non-Aboriginal women (mean 65.4, SD 18.4 nmol/L, P CONCLUSION: We believe this is the first study to compare vitamin D levels in pregnant Aboriginal women with non-Aboriginal women living in the same community at temperate latitude.

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