Majority of pregnant women in Kashmir Vitamin-D deficient

A fresh study has exposed the grave deficiency of Vitamin D among pregnant women in Kashmir, a condition that can threaten the well being of mother and child. Vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy has been advocated by the researchers to address the gross shortfall in Vitamin D levels. A recently published study by Kashmir-based group of researchers has found that two-thirds of Kashmiri women are Vitamin D deficient. The study, carried out at tertiary care hospitals of Srinagar by a group of eleven doctors and published in current issue of…

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