Vitamin D Deficiency and Pregnancy: A Cross Sectional Study in Pregnant Women Referring to Health Centers in Amol

Introduction: Vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy period is common in so many parts of the world . the recent studies had shown the connection between this shortage and some sort of diseases in mother and fetus, so our purpose in this review is focused on determination of vitamin D abundance in first three month of pregnancy and finding the connection between abundance of vitamin D and some Demographic and midwifery factors in pregnant women who referred to health centers of Amol city in 2018-2019.Method: This study was done on 122 pregnant women under 14 week of gestation that referred to 3 different health centers in Amol city. Demographic and midwifery information and level of vitamin 25 hydroxy vitamin D3 in samples been gathered and recorded. Level of vitamin 25 hydroxy vitamin D3 less than 20 ng / 1 Dl considered as deficiency of vitamin D , data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics and significance level was considered less than 0.05.Result: The average age of mothers was 27.55± 6.31 years and half of mothers were college graduated, 85 percent of them were housekeepers and 66 percent of them were experiencing their first pregnancy. Results shown that in this 122 women, 64 person (52.22%) had vitamin D deficiency. also logistic regression test showed vitamin D deficiency in young mothers with age of less than 20 years and in primiparas is doubled more than mothers with ages more than 20 and multiparas but no significant was found between mother’s graduation or their jobs and vitamin D deficiency.Discussion and Conclusion: Abundance of vitamin D deficiency are high in pregnant women specially in prmiparas and women younger than 20 years old. According to the connection between this deficiency and its Complications in mother and fetus and its preventability, screening the level of vitamin D in all pregnant women before or in the beginning of pregnancy is recommended.

کلیدواژه ها:

Pregnant women ، vitamin D deficiency ، level of vitamin 25 hydroxy vitamin D3 ، Screening vitamin D