Children born to mothers with inadequate vitamin D-serum 25(OH)D levels were more likely to have suboptimal gross-motor skills when compared with children born to mothers with adequate levels, according to research recently published in the British Journal of Nutrition.

“Few human studies have assessed the relationship between maternal vitamin D status and neurodevelopmental outcomes,” Andrea L. Darling, BSc (Hons) PhD, from the department of nutritional sciences at the University of Surrey, England, and colleagues wrote. “The results of the five [previously] published observational studies that exist are inconsistent.”