Opinions and Practice of US-Based Obstetrician-Gynecologists regarding Vitamin D Screening and Supplementation of Pregnant Women

Table 2

Potential sources of vitamin D that the responding physicians would and would not recommend to their patients. Totals do not add to 100% because respondents could answer that they were neutral.

Vitamin D source	Would recommend	Would not recommend
Fortified dairy products	84.2%	5.0%
Green leafy vegetables	77.2%	5.0%
Fatty fish	76.2%	4.0%
Fortified cereals	74.3%	7.9%
Vitamin D supplements	73.3%	12.9%
Multivitamins	71.3%	10.9%
Sun exposure	67.3%	18.8%
Fish oils	55.4%	10.9%
Mushrooms	18.8%	30.7%
Animal liver	11.9%	42.6%
Artificial UV light source	5.0%	62.4%