Vitamin D and jaundiced newborns

We read the currently published article entitled “Comparison between maternal and neonatal serum vitamin D levels in term jaundiced and non-jaundiced cases”1 with interest. Dr. Aletayeb and colleagues conducted a case-control study to evaluate the serum vitamin D levels of mothers and their term newborns and investigate the relationship between these serum vitamin D levels and occurrence of jaundice.1 The authors found that the mean vitamin D levels were significantly lower in the jaundiced newborns than those in the nonjaundiced controls (84.4 vs.

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