Genetic predisposition for vitamin D deficiency is not associated with adverse outcome of very low birth weight infants: A cohort study from the German Neonatal Network.

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OBJECTIVE: Postnatal vitamin D supplementation is standard of care in neonates and preterm infants. Despite routine supplementation of vitamin D, a wide range of complications related to vitamin D deficiency has been described in the literature. Since standard vitamin D supplementation might be not sufficient in preterm infants with a genetic predisposition for vitamin D deficiency, we investigated the outcome of...

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