{"id":543,"date":"2018-06-25T10:40:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T07:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/?p=543"},"modified":"2018-06-25T10:40:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T07:40:56","slug":"polluted-air-may-increase-need-for-vitamin-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/polluted-air-may-increase-need-for-vitamin-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Polluted air may increase need for vitamin D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/adc.bmj.com\/content\/87\/2\/111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publication<\/a> where the vitamin D status is compared in 34 children aged 9-24 months living in a region of Delhi known for high levels of air pollution (Mori Gate), with a comparable age range of less pollinated children (Gurgaon) from the city.<\/p>\n<p>The mean value of 25(OH)D in the Mori gate area was 12.4 (7) ng\/ml, compared with 27.1 (7) ng\/ml in children living in Gurgaon District (p &lt; 0.001 ).<\/p>\n<p>The authors recommend that children living in areas with high atmospheric pollution should be offered vitamin D supplements because they are at risk of developing vitamin D deficiency rickets.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting publication where the vitamin D status is compared in 34 children aged 9-24 months living in a region of Delhi known for high levels of air pollution (Mori Gate), with a comparable age range of less pollinated children (Gurgaon) from the city. The mean value of 25 (OH) D in the Mori gate [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/air4health.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}