Vitamin D deficiency associated with greater rates of caesarean sections

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 09:08 in Health & Medicine

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Centre (BMC) found that pregnant women who are vitamin D deficient are also at an increased risk for delivering a baby by caesarean section as compared to pregnant women who are not vitamin D deficient. These findings currently appear on-line in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism...

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