Most breast-fed and many formula-fed infants in the USA have an inadequate daily intake of vitamin D—below the amounts recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)—according to the results of a study by Perrine et al. The majority of infants might, therefore, need daily vitamin supplementation to meet the 2008 AAP recommendation.
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Pappa, H., Gordon, C. Supplements: when will vitamin D have its day in the sun?. Nat Rev Endocrinol 6, 539–540 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2010.127
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