A University of Pittsburgh study, published in the US journal Nutrition, says that despite taking prenatal multivitamin supplements, pregnant women are still deficient of vitamin D.
This, the study claimed, has led to 92% of African-American babies and 66% of Caucasian-American infants having insufficient vitamin D at birth, a condition linked to rickets and other musculoskeletal health complications.
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