Effect of vitamin D on serum cholesterol and arterial blood pressure in infants.

91 children suffering from rickets, most of them less than 2 years old, were divided into four groups and treated with different doses of vitamin D. After 1 month the arterial blood pressure and the serum cholesterol had risen in all groups and in all but one of them significantly so. It is suggested that the reason why children in one group gave a poor response to vitamin D in spite of receiving a high dose was that they had kwashiorkor with low serum albumins and abnormal livers.