{"id":79,"date":"2025-11-26T07:48:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vedaatouch.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:29:05","slug":"vitamin-d-for-height","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vedaatouch.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Importance vitamin D for height"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"79\" class=\"elementor elementor-79\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cc27bd e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3cc27bd\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4aba773 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4aba773\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"mb15\"><strong>Objective:<\/strong>\u00a0To investigate how serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) affects height growth velocity and the risk of low bone mineral density (BMD) in children.<\/p><p class=\"mb15\"><strong>Design:<\/strong>\u00a0A population-based prospective cohort study.<\/p><p class=\"mb15\"><strong>Patients and methods:<\/strong>\u00a0A total of 10 450 participants with complete follow-up records from a cohort were included in the current study. Serum 25(OH)D concentrations were measured at baseline and 2-year follow-up, and the average of 2-time measurements was used for analysis. Low BMD was defined as calcaneus speed of sound Z-score \u2264 \u22121. The associations of vitamin D with height growth velocity and the risks of incident low BMD were evaluated using adjusted \u03b2 and risk ratio (<i>RR<\/i>).<\/p><p class=\"mb15\"><strong>Results:<\/strong>\u00a0After multivariable adjustment, an inverse L-shaped association between serum 25(OH)D concentrations and height growth velocity was observed, leveling off up to 40\u201360 nmol\/L. Overall, each 10 nmol\/L higher serum 25(OH)D concentration was associated with a 0.15 cm\/year higher height growth velocity (<i>P<\/i>\u00a0&lt; 0.001) and a 7% decreased risk of low BMD [<i>RR<\/i>\u00a0(95%<i>CI<\/i>): 0.93 (0.87~0.98)]. Compared to those with vitamin D deficiency, participants who had sufficient vitamin D had a 22% lower risk for low BMD [<i>RR<\/i>(95%<i>CI<\/i>): 0.78 (0.62~0.98)].\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objective:\u00a0To investigate how serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) affects height growth velocity and the risk of low bone mineral density (BMD) in children. Design:\u00a0A population-based prospective cohort study. Patients and methods:\u00a0A total of 10 450 participants with complete follow-up records from a cohort were included in the current study. Serum 25(OH)D concentrations were measured at baseline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kids-supplements","category-vitamin-d-for-height"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vedaatouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vedaatouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vedaatouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vedaatouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vedaatouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vedaatouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/vedaatouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vedaatouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vedaatouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vedaatouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vedaatouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}