Comment on: Sørensen et al. Maternal Serum Levels of 25-Hydroxy-Vitamin D During Pregnancy and Risk of Type 1 Diabetes in the Offspring. Diabetes 2012;61:175–178 | Zendy

Sari Niinistö | Zendy; Liisa Uusitalo | Zendy; Maija E. Miettinen | Zendy; Suvi Μ. Virtanen | Zendy

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Comment on: Sørensen et al. Maternal Serum Levels of 25-Hydroxy-Vitamin D During Pregnancy and Risk of Type 1 Diabetes in the Offspring. Diabetes 2012;61:175–178

Author(s) -

Sari Niinistö,

Liisa Uusitalo,

Maija E. Miettinen,

Suvi Μ. Virtanen

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

diabetes

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.219

H-Index - 330

eISSN - 1939-327X

pISSN - 0012-1797

DOI - 10.2337/db12-0220

Subject(s) - offspring , pregnancy , type 2 diabetes , confounding , medicine , diabetes mellitus , polyunsaturated fatty acid , endocrinology , vitamin d and neurology , risk factor , prospective cohort study , physiology , fatty acid , biology , biochemistry , genetics

Sorensen et al. (1) report that in Norway, low concentration of 25-hydroxy-vitamin D [25(OH)D] in mothers during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of type 1 diabetes in the offspring. We would like to point out that one putative confounding factor in their study might have been the intake of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Childhood n-3 fatty acid intake and status have been linked with the development of pretype 1 diabetes (2), while reasonably powered prospective studies of exposure during pregnancy are …

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