Body composition phase angle: A potential predictor of vitamin D status in early pregnancy

Ziqin Wang; Huiqun Wang; Dan Zheng; Jing Liu; Yanping Liu

doi:10.1002/fsn3.3722

Body composition phase angle: A potential predictor of vitamin D status in early pregnancy

Food Sci Nutr. 2023 Oct 12;11(12):8027-8034. doi: 10.1002/fsn3.3722. eCollection 2023 Dec.

Authors

Ziqin Wang¹, Huiqun Wang¹, Dan Zheng², Jing Liu³, Yanping Liu⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, the Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Monitoring and Disease Control, Ministry of Education Guizhou Medical University Guiyang China.
² Department of Maternity Health Guiyang Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital Guiyang China.
³ Department of Obstetrics Guiqian International General Hospital Guiyang China.
⁴ Department of Clinical Nutrition Peking Union Medical College Hospital Beijing China.

Abstract

Phase angle and vitamin D can reflect the state of the body cells, and the two may interact with each other. Therefore, this study was conducted to find out the relationship between PA and vitamin D. Taking women in early pregnancy as our study subjects, we found that PA had a positive effect on vitamin D levels. Body composition phase angle, as a noninvasive, easy-to-operate, and easy-to-monitor indicator, can be used an early screening index for vitamin D nutrition levels in early pregnancy, and the cutoff value was 4.95°.

Keywords: body composition; early pregnancy; nutritional status; phase angle; vitamin D.