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Vitamin D Levels in Neonates With and Without Seizures: A Single Center Cross-Sectional Study

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Abstract

Objective

To study the serum vitamin D levels in neonatal seizures and vitamin D status of the mothers whose babies had vitamin D deficiency.

Methods

For this cross-sectional study, vitamin D levels were studied in term and late preterm neonates admitted to NICU with seizures at our tertiary care center. Controls were term and late preterm healthy neonates admitted in the postnatal ward with the mothers in the same center.

Results

30 cases and 30 controls were enrolled. The mean (SD) serum vitamin D was 19.33 (7.76) ng/mL among cases and 16.83 (6.74) ng/mL among controls (P=0.18). We tested maternal vitamin D levels in babies with seizures and low vitamin D levels. The mean (SD) serum vitamin D level among these mothers (n=11) was 13.25 (6.17) ng/mL.

Conclusions

There was no statistically significant association between serum vitamin D levels and seizures among neonates in our study.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, Karnataka, India

    Jonnala Chaitanya Reddy, Apurv Barche, Sneha Jaganathan Andrade, Aditya Verma, Leslie Edward Lewis & Jayashree Purkayastha

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Institutional ethics committee of KMC; No. 779/2018 dated November 13, 2018.

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JP, SJA, AB: conceptualization, methodology; JCR: data collection, analysis; JP: original draft preparation. AB, SJA, AV: correction of draft and final preparation. All authors approved the final manuscript.

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Reddy, J.C., Barche, A., Andrade, S.J. et al. Vitamin D Levels in Neonates With and Without Seizures: A Single Center Cross-Sectional Study. Indian Pediatr 58, 839–841 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-021-2304-5

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