Pregnant women should be given vitamin D to help safeguard their babies' health, say researchers.
An article in the British Journal of Nutrition says the UK remains the only one of 31 European countries that lacks a set vitamin D recommendation for women of reproductive age. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to complications in pregnancy and poor neonatal health. Co-author Dr Elina Hypponen, reader in epidemiology and public health at the UCL Institute of Child Health, said, 'The incidence of vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women in Britain is unacceptably high.'
