Vitamin D Deficiency Study

Pregnant Dark-Skinned Women in the Netherlands

Exhibit a Predominance of Vitamin D Deficiency

As New Yorkers express both anger and satisfaction about the media-defined, financial serial killer and social pariah, Bernard Madoff’s multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme; there are a disproportionate number of women and children at risk and suffering in northern countries such as Hague, a metropolis located in the Netherlands. Being poor and uneducated has always been a detriment to the health of the disenfranchised, many of whom, reside in ghettos with a plethora of health and safety hazards.
Staggering numbers of dark-skinned women living in the Netherlands showed a predominance of vitamin D deficiency which is common in persons living in northern countries. Consequently, this particular vitamin deficiency will almost certainly have devastating health affects on both the unborn child and the mother carrying it.
Scientists were able to determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women of a host of ethnic backgrounds in The Hague.

Currently, there is a preponderance of Midwives practicing in the Netherlands and it was too many of these physicians that researchers visited in order to gather information for their own study, a study from which the data was gathered for This Free Thinking Proletariat report.
From June 2002 through March 2004 a host of Midwives reported visits from large amounts of non-Western women (mostly immigrants) and explained that those women who visited the Midwives’ practices during their twelfth weeks of pregnancy received an added measurement of a serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH) D] to a standard blood test. So popular is the profession of Midwifery is in this region that the Municipal Health Service was needed to assist in the collection of additional data from the Midwives’ files. The subjects were grouped ethnically: Western, Turkish, Moroccan and other non-Western.
Vitamin D concentrations of approximately 400 women were discovered:
29% were Western
22% were Turkish
19% were Moroccan
Mean serum 25(OH) D concentrations in Turkish, Moroccan, and other non-Western women were significantly lower than those in Western women
Serum 25(OH) D was below the detection limit in 22% of the Turkish women.
How much more interesting this information would have been had the differences between ethnic groups been aided by other variables such as age and socioeconomic status. Nevertheless, the bottom line remains what it remains and, again, it isn’t good for women.
WHY VITAMIN D DEFIECIENCY is COMMON in
DARK-SKINNED WOMEN of NORTHERN COUNTRIES
After exposure to sunlight or artificial ultraviolet light the skin produces Vitamin D3. The production is less effective however, in persons with darker skin simply because People who originate from tropical regions or regions near the equator have a natural sunscreen built into their anatomy. This sunscreen is called melanin and it is what also responsible for dark skin. Diabolically, then dark-skinned people’s genetic protection has turned into a sort of curse for the subjects of this study. Automatically, ultraviolet light is absorbed by skin pigment which is extremely counterproductive for these women being that it is after an individual’s exposure to sunlight or even artificial ultraviolet lights, that the skin produces Vitamin D3.
For these women there is minimal exposure to sun light, they cover their skin, and often have diets low in vitamin D and calcium which may also contribute to the lower vitamin D concentrations in non-Western dark-skinned people of other northern countries.
The Health Council of the Netherlands Recommends
Higher Vitamin D Intake for Pregnant Women to Ensure
Adequate Absorption of Calcium by the Fetus
It should be noted that various Dutch medical administrations such as those for midwives, gynecologists and general practitioners negate the need for any additional attention to pregnant women in The Hague. These groups maintain that there is insufficient evidence of such a necessity.

Original Research Conducted by: Irene M van der Meer, Nasra S Karamali, A Joan P Boeke, Paul Lips, Barend JC Middelkoop, Irene Verhoeven and Jan D Wuister who obtained data:From the Municipal Health Service of The Hague, The Hague, Netherlands (IMM, NSK, and BJCM); the Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine (EMGO) (PL and AJPB) and the Department of Endocrinology (PL), Vrije University Medical Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands (BJCM); the Femme Midwives’ Practice, The Hague, Netherlands (IV); and the De Rubenshoek Primary Health Care Centre, The Hague, Netherlands (JDW)
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