An update on vitamin D deficiency status in Malaysia

Z Md Isa, NR Mohd Nordin, MH Mahmud, S Hashim - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Vitamin D is essential for maintaining serum calcium levels, ensuring sufficient bone
mineralization, immunomodulatory properties, and a protective effect on the cardiovascular …

[HTML][HTML] Nutrient intakes of pregnant and lactating women in Indonesia and Malaysia: Systematic review and meta-analysis

R Agustina, D Rianda, W Lasepa, FS Birahmatika… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Optimizing intake during pregnancy and lactation is crucial to the growth and
development of children and their lifelong health. We performed a systematic review and …

Beyond the Tropics: Unraveling the Complex Relationship between Sun Exposure, Dietary Intake, and Vitamin D Deficiency in Coastal Malaysians

S Gill, AM Adenan, EE Thomas, A Haleelur Rahman… - Nutrients, 2024 - mdpi.com
Despite Malaysia's year-round sunny climate, vitamin D deficiency is surprisingly common
among Malaysians. However, we hypothesise that vitamin D levels among coastal …

Vitamin D deficiency in South-East Asian children: a systematic review

V Oktaria, DAD Putri, Z Ihyauddin, M Julia… - Archives of Disease in …, 2022 - adc.bmj.com
Objective To describe the prevalence and determinants of vitamin D deficiency (VDD)
among healthy children aged between 0 and 18 years living in South-East Asia (SEA) …

Status and influential factors of vitamin D among children aged 0 to 6 years in a Chinese population

H Zhang, Z Li, Y Wei, J Fu, Y Feng, D Chen, D Xu - BMC Public Health, 2020 - Springer
Background Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency in childhood are common. However, the
status and influential factors of vitamin D during different ages are not clear. This study …

Longitudinal assessment between lifestyle-related risk factors and a composite cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk index among adolescents in Malaysia

N Thangiah, TT Su, K Chinna, MY Jalaludin… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The study aims to create a composite risk index of CVD among adolescents and examine
the influence of demographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle-related risk factors on the …

Risk of eczema, wheezing and respiratory tract infections in the first year of life: a systematic review of vitamin D concentrations during pregnancy and at birth

MA Mustapa Kamal Basha, HA Majid, N Razali… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Allergic conditions and respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are common causes of
morbidity and mortality in childhood. The relationship between vitamin D status in pregnancy …

[HTML][HTML] Vitamin D insufficiency is high in Malaysia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on vitamin D status in Malaysia

S Mohd Saffian, NA Jamil, NA Mohd Tahir… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Purpose: To estimate the vitamin D status of participants residing in Malaysia. Methods:
PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and MyJurnal were searched up to June 2022 without …

Vitamin D status is associated with modifiable lifestyle factors in pre-adolescent children living in urban Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

WSS Chee, CY Chang, K Arasu, SY Wong, SH Ong… - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Studies on vitamin D status and its determinants in growing children in countries with ample
sunshine such as Malaysia have been limited. The aim of our study was to determine factors …

Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D deficiency in Malaysian children with severe atopic dermatitis

YW Lee, SE Choon, S Izham - Medical Journal of Malaysia, 2019 - research.monash.edu
Background: Vitamin D deficiency has been shown to be a determinant of disease severity
in patients with atopic dermatitis (AD). There is a lack of information on the prevalence of …