“The study shows that both pregnant women and all other women have a reduced risk of developing MS if they have higher blood levels of vitamins. However, higher vitamin D levels during pregnancy have no effect on the fetus, »says study author Jonatan Salzer, a doctor at Umea University Hospital in Sweden. About 291 blood samples from 500 people in northern Sweden were analyzed in this study.
Among them, multiple sclerosis developed in 192 people, an average of 9 years after sampling. In 37 cases, blood was drawn from women whose children later developed MS. The researchers found that women with higher vitamin D levels were 61% less likely to develop the disease compared to women with lower vitamin D levels. However, very few people had high blood levels of this vitamin. There was no relationship between high vitamin D levels in pregnant women and disease in children. “The results of the study suggest that a protective effect may develop later in pregnancy and after delivery,” says Salzer. “Another interesting finding is the declining vitamin D levels in society as a whole, which may be causing an increasing incidence of MS”. Source: ScienceNews.pl