Background: Deficiency of Vitamin D is currently the most untreated nutritional deficiency worldwide. In India, despite plenty of sunlight, VDD prevalence is 50-90% in all age groups. The neonatal vitamin D level depends wholly on the maternal vitamin D level because vitamin D crosses the placenta during the last trimester of pregnancy Objectives: To study the pattern of VDD in preterm and term newborns delivered at M.M.
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