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Record W4411732719 · doi:10.1093/bjd/ljaf085.156

P128 the risk of atopic eczema in breastfed offspring whose mothers were supplemented with vitamin D during pregnancy

2025· article· en· W4411732719 on OpenAlexaff
Sarah El‐Heis, Vinay Kumar Patel

Bibliographic record

VenueBritish Journal of Dermatology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicBreastfeeding Practices and Influences
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOffspringPregnancyMedicineVitaminObstetricsPediatricsEndocrinologyBiology

Abstract

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Abstract Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin condition affecting up to 22.5% of children globally and associated with significant morbidity. The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency has been previously observed in children with AD, with several studies reporting that vitamin D supplementation lessens disease severity. Studies assessing the effect of maternal vitamin D supplementation on the risk of offspring AD have shown conflicting results. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the effect of vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy on the development of AD in offspring. We systematically reviewed MEDLINE, Embase, the Cochrane Library, Scopus, and Web of Science from their inceptions to 11 June 2023. Included studies clearly documented the dose of vitamin D supplementation administered either preconception or during pregnancy, the duration of breastfeeding, a gestational age at birth of ≥ 35 weeks, and the assessment of AD within the first 3 years of life. Systematic reviews, case reports and letters to the editor were excluded. GRADE and risk-of-bias assessments were performed for all included studies and their primary outcomes. The primary outcome was the rate of offspring AD within 3 years in breastfed infants. A systematic search identified 248 citations, with 6 studies meeting the inclusion criteria. Vitamin D supplementation doses ranged from 248 IU to 200 000 IU. Breastfeeding duration, documented in all studies, was adjusted for in analyses. The meta-analysis of the six studies comparing maternal vitamin D supplementation to placebo reported an odds ratio of 0.85 (95% confidence interval 0.70–1.04) for offspring AD. Season of birth emerged as a potential factor for AD, with two high-quality studies suggesting a nonsignificant association. Maternal body mass index and fat mass showed no effect on the risk of offspring AD at 12 months. In conclusion, this systematic review found that maternal vitamin D supplementation resulted in a slight nonsignificant reduction in the risk of infantile eczema in breastfed infants. The findings challenge claims of maternal vitamin D supplementation in the prevention of offspring AD. This underscores the need for further high-quality evidence focusing on this topic.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.018
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.042

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.018
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.007
Bibliometrics0.0030.005
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.242 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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