Southern Catalonia Institute for Biomedical Research (IRBCatSud)

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Researcher and lecturer in nutrition and public health, Rovira i Virgili University (URV) and the Southern Catalonia Biomedical Research Institute (IRBCatSud), CIBERobn

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Children whose mothers took high doses of vitamin D (2,800 IU/day) during pregnancy have better verbal and visual memory at the age of 10—among other cognitive functions—than children whose mothers took a standard dose of this vitamin (400 IU/day). This is the conclusion of a study, published in JAMA Network Open, based on a reanalysis of data from 498 children in another study on childhood asthma in Denmark.