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Prevalence and determinants of insufficient vitamin D status in young Canadian Inuit children from Nunavik (Record no. 133236)
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Huguette Turgeon O’Brien |
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| Title | Prevalence and determinants of insufficient vitamin D status in young Canadian Inuit children from Nunavik |
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| Extent | pp69-658 |
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| Summary, etc. biblio.abstract | Background: Vitamin D deficiency has reached pandemic levels affecting over one billion people worldwide. However, limited data is available on the prevalence and determinants of vitamin D status of Canadian Indigenous children and no study has been reported in Inuit children from Nunavik. Aim: Therefore, using data collected between 2006 and 2010, we aimed to investigate the prevalence and main determinants of insufficient serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (s25(OH)D) concentrations in Inuit children attending childcare centres in Nunavik. Methods: This study included 245 Inuit children aged 11 to 54 months. s25(OH)D concentrations were measured by radioimmunoassay. Dietary intakes were assessed using 24-hour recalls. Usual dietary intakes were estimated using the National Cancer Institute method. We used a multiple imputation technique to replace missing values when performing regression analysis. Results: Our findings revealed that 64.5% of children had a s25(OH)D concentration < 75 nmol/L, while 78.1% did not meet the estimated average requirement (EAR) for vitamin D. Vitamin D intake and fluid milk consumption were positively associated with s25(OH)D concentrations, while negative associations were observed with children’ energy intake, non-alcoholic beverage consumption, body weight, breastfeeding duration and, biological/adoptive/foster parents’ educational level. Conclusion: Vitamin D inadequacy was highly prevalent and closely aligned with levels observed over the years in non-Indigenous children. Breastfed children who do not receive vitamin D supplementation, overweight and obese children, and children with inadequate milk consumption were at high risk of vitamin D insufficiency. Eating vitamin D rich foods such as fluid milk and seafood along with vitamin D supplementation when needed are recommended. |
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| Subject | <a href="Vitamin D intake">Vitamin D intake</a> |
| -- | <a href="Vitamin D status">Vitamin D status</a> |
| -- | <a href="Inuit children ">Inuit children </a> |
| -- | <a href="Nunavik ">Nunavik </a> |
| -- | <a href="breastfeeding ">breastfeeding </a> |
| -- | <a href="body weight ">body weight </a> |
| -- | <a href="milk consumption ">milk consumption </a> |
| -- | <a href="seafood consumption">seafood consumption</a> |
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| Personal name | Doris Gagné, |
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| Host Biblionumber | 132082 |
| Host Itemnumber | 114107 |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | California Sage Publications 2025 |
| Title | Nutrition and Health |
| International Standard Serial Number | 0260-1060 |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | SNDT Juhu | SNDT Juhu | 07/11/2025 | jp963.25 | 07/11/2025 | 07/11/2025 | Journal Article |