maternal vitamin d deficiency and risk of childhood epilepsy

maternal vitamin d deficiency and risk of childhood epilepsy
hadiseh ghorbanian,^1,*
1. student research committee, islamic azad university, mashhad branch, mashhad, iran
Introduction: epilepsy is an abnormality of the nervous system, which may caused by fetal stimulation.maternal vitamin d deficiency is one of the factors associated with childhood epilepsy.our goal is to investigate the association between vitamin d deficiency and neonatal epilepsy.
Methods: we did a search with the keywords ''maternal vitamin d deficiency" AND ''childhood epilepsy '' in Google Scholar, PubMed and SID databases. about 100 articles were found which just 15 of them were related to our topic.finally, we included case control, cross sectional and cohort studies in our research.
Results: vitamin d under 35 mg/ml considered as a vitamin d deficiency.according to the articles, vitamin d deficiency in pregnant mothers can effect on fetus neurologic growing and cause diseases like epilepsy in childhood. maternal vitamin d has meaningful relation with fetus vitamin d. nationality has no association with the amount of vitamin d.
Conclusion: these studies did not fully confirm the association between vitamin d deficiency and neonatal epilepsy, but it is recommended that pregnant women be informed of their vitamin d levels before pregnancy.
Keywords: neonatal epilepsy, vitamin d deficiency, pregnant women