Evaluation of Vitamin D Requirements During Pregnancy

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy starting at the beginning of the second trimester. Mothers will be randomized to one of three vitamin D dosing groups: 400, 2,000 or 4,000 international units per day. It is hypothesized that the highest dosing regimen will result in a better vitamin D status of women regardless of their ethnicity or race.

Timeline

Start

2004-01

Primary completion

2010-01

Completion

2010-01

Publications

• Background Hollis BW. Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels indicative of vitamin D sufficiency: implications for establishing a new effective dietary intake recommendation for vitamin D. J Nutr. 2005 Feb;135(2):317-22. doi: 10.1093/jn/135.2.317.
• Background Hollis BW, Wagner CL. Normal serum vitamin D levels. N Engl J Med. 2005 Feb 3;352(5):515-6; author reply 515-6. doi: 10.1056/NEJM200502033520521. No abstract available.
• Results Hollis BW, Johnson D, Hulsey TC, Ebeling M, Wagner CL. Vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy: double-blind, randomized clinical trial of safety and effectiveness. J Bone Miner Res. 2011 Oct;26(10):2341-57. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.463.
• Results Hollis BW, Wagner CL. Vitamin D requirements and supplementation during pregnancy. Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes. 2011 Dec;18(6):371-5. doi: 10.1097/MED.0b013e32834b0040.
• Palacios C, Kostiuk LL, Cuthbert A, Weeks J. Vitamin D supplementation for women during pregnancy. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2024 Jul 30;7(7):CD008873. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008873.pub5.
• Reed SG, Fan S, Wagner CL, Lawson AB. Predictors of Developmental Defects of Enamel in Primary Maxillary Central Incisors Using Bayesian Model Selection. Caries Res. 2024;58(1):30-38. doi: 10.1159/000534793. Epub 2023 Nov 2.
• Wei W, Shary JR, Garrett-Mayer E, Anderson B, Forestieri NE, Hollis BW, Wagner CL. Bone mineral density during pregnancy in women participating in a randomized controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation. Am J Clin Nutr. 2017 Dec;106(6):1422-1430. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.116.140459. Epub 2017 Oct 18.

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