Pregnant women who do not get enough vitamin D may end up negatively affecting their child’s language development, a recent Australian survey has uncovered. However, these findings still need to be confirmed by other investigations, as the study was entirely based on the statistical study of pregnant women.

Chief researcher Andrew Whitehouse, an associate professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Western Australia, told Healthcare Today that sufficient vitamin D levels are vital for the optimal development of children.

For the study, the research team examined 700 pregnant women’s levels of vitamin D, and measured the behaviour of the children that those women had at six different ages. Interestingly, at the ages of five and ten, researchers also performed a language development test. This survey turned out to be scientifically relevant, although these findings still need to be verified by other studies.

Whitehouse said that these findings allude to a link between maternal vitamin D and offspring brain development. He added that vitamin D supplements for pregnant women may become necessary.

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