2019 Maternal Vitamin D deficiency and Intra Uterine Growth Retardation

Abstract

Vitamin D has an increasingly recognized non classical actions such as promoting insulin action and secretion, immune modulation and lung development. It has the potential to influence many factors in the developing fetus. Vitamin D deficiency may be a critical risk factor linking maternal in utero growth and pregnancy outcomes. Possible mechanisms for associations between poor intrauterine growth and adulthood vitamin D deficiency involve reduced vitamin D binding protein, reduced renal function and genetic variations that influence both fetal growth and vitamin D homeostasis.