作者
P Mehrotra, RK Marwaha, S Aneja, Anju Seth, BM Singla, Ganie Ashraf, B Sharma, Aparna Sastry, N Tandon
发表日期
2010/7
期刊
Indian pediatrics
卷号
47
页码范围
581-586
出版商
Springer-Verlag
简介
Background
Hypocalcemia accounts for a majority of seizures in infants reporting to the emergency ward of our hospital.
Objective
To evaluate the role of Vitamin D deficiency in the etiology of hypocalcemic seizures in infancy.
Design and Setting
Cross sectional hospital based study, from April 2006-March 2007.
Subjects
60 infants with hypocalcemic seizures and their mothers (study group) and 60 healthy breastfed infants with their lactating mothers (control group).
Measurements
Vitamin D [25(OH) D] and intact parathormone levels.
Results
High prevalence of hypovitaminosis D [25(OH)D levels<10 ng/mL] was observed in study mothers (85%), control mothers (50%), study infants (90%), and control infants (41.7 …
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