Open AccessInadequate vitamin D intake among pregnant women in Malaysia based on revised recommended nutrient intakes value and potential dietary strategies to tackle the inadequacy
Author(s) -
Siew Siew Lee,
Raman Subramaniam,
Maiza Tusimin,
KingHwa Ling,
Kartini Farah Rahim,
Su Peng Loh
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
nutrition research and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.506
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2005-6168
pISSN - 1976-1457
DOI - 10.4162/nrp.2021.15.4.492
Subject(s) - fortification , medicine , food fortification , environmental health , vitamin , dietary reference intake , fortified food , vitamin d and neurology , pregnancy , nutrient , food science , food frequency questionnaire , biology , endocrinology , population , ecology , genetics
Recently, the recommended nutrient intakes (RNI) for vitamin D for Malaysian aged 1-70 yrs has been revised from 5 µg/day to 15 µg/day. This study is aimed to assess the adequacy of vitamin D intake based on revised RNI and to recommend several dietary strategies to increase total vitamin D intake.