These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Observations on the natural history of vitamin D deficiency amongst Asian immigrants.
    Author: Stephens WP, Klimiuk PS, Warrington S, Taylor JL, Berry JL, Mawer EB.
    Journal: Q J Med; 1982; 51(202):171-88. PubMed ID: 6981122.
    Abstract:
    The Asian community of Rochdale was examined for evidence of vitamin D deficiency in 1970 and again in 1980. There has been a striking improvement in the biochemical markers of vitamin D deficiency among Asian children, but little improvement was observed in the adults. Asian children born in the United Kingdom had higher serum 25 hydroxyvitamin D concentrations than migrant children. Prolonged residence in the United Kingdom and a long period of exposure to western customs was not associated with a better vitamin D status in the adults. The vitamin D status of this community was still markedly inferior to that of a white control group despite attempts to influence their dietary practices and habitual solar exposure. Vitamin D deficiency presents a continuing problem among first generation adult migrants, but a decreasing problem among children.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]