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The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, its predictive factors and the association with pregnancy outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_hmbci-2017-0005_s_998_w2aab3b8c12b1b7b1aab1c14b2Aa\">\n                    <jats:title>Materials and methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This was a prospective observational study in a tertiary teaching hospital over 2-years\u2019 duration from August 2013 to August 2015. A total of 680 women who completed 37 weeks of pregnancy were recruited.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_hmbci-2017-0005_s_997_w2aab3b8c12b1b7b1aab1c14b3Aa\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Five hundred and seventy-five patients were enrolled in the final analysis for pregnancy outcomes (response rate of 84.6%). There were 71.7% patients who exhibited vitamin D deficiency, 21.0% vitamin D insufficiency and only 7.3% who had adequate levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OH-vit D) of more than 30 ng\/mL. There was no statistically significant association between vitamin D status with maternal (parity, gestational diabetes mellitus, hypertension, preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, preterm labor, antenatal infection, bacterial vaginosis and anemia) and neonatal outcomes (low birth weight baby and neonatal intensive care unit admission) among the three groups.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_hmbci-2017-0005_s_996_w2aab3b8c12b1b7b1aab1c14b4Aa\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A high prevalence of low vitamin D level among pregnant women at term was seen in this study, however, there was no significant finding observed between vitamin D status and both maternal and neonatal outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1515\/hmbci-2017-0005","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,6,2]],"date-time":"2017-06-02T09:15:31Z","timestamp":1496394931000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["Vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy at term: risk factors and pregnancy outcomes"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Chui Ling","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology , UKM Medical Centre , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Beng Kwang","family":"Ng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology , UKM Medical Centre , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Loo Ling","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Paediatrics , UKM Medical Centre , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fook Choe","family":"Cheah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Paediatrics , UKM Medical Centre , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hanita","family":"Othman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pathology , UKM Medical Centre , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nor Azlin Mohamed","family":"Ismail","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology , Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre , Jalan Yaacob Latiff, Cheras, 56000 Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , Phone: +603-91455949, Fax: +603-91456672"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,5,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025121207331715378_j_hmbci-2017-0005_ref_001_w2aab3b8c12b1b7b1ab2b2aAa","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Dawodu A, Akinbi H. 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