Babies with low vitamin D at birth are more at risk of developing Schizophrenia later

Newborn babies with low levels of vitamin D have a far higher risk of developing schizophrenia later in life, researchers have found.

Inspired by previous research that showed that people with schizophrenia are more likely to be born in the winter or spring, a team of scientists and doctors at the Queensland Brain Institute looked at routine blood samples from Danish babies.

The study, published September 7 in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found that babies with low levels of vitamin D had twice the risk of developing schizophrenia as babies in the healthy control group.

The Australian research team believes that if vitamin D could conclusively be linked to schizophrenia, it might explain up to 40 percent of cases suggesting that taking Vitamin D supplements during pregnancy could be beneficial to the future health of the unborn child.

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