Vitamin D deficiency predicts infections in Young North Indian Children a secondary data analysis.xls (5.82 MB)
Vitamin D deficiency predicts infections in Young North Indian Children a secondary data analysis.xls
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modified on 2017-02-13, 17:59 The study was conducted from January 2010 to February 2012 in the low-to-middle socioeconomic settings in New Delhi. Blood samples were obtained at baseline from all
the children aged 6-30 months to assess vitamin-D and hemoglobin. ALRI, clinical pneumonia and diarrhea were assessed during biweekly follow up visits for 6 months. Generalized estimating equations (GEE) was done to assess the association between baseline vitamin-D status with ALRI, clinical pneumonia and diarrhea.
All procedures were approved by the Ethics committees
of the Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, Christian Medical College Vellore and Norwegian
Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics (REK
VEST).
