Researchers with the Brain Institute of the Queensland University seem to have found a major breakthrough in the study of Schizophrenia.

According to a research that was followed over the span of three years, babies born with low concentration levels of vitamin D faced a greater risk of developing schizophrenia at a later stage in their lives.

During the study, researchers collected minute blood samples from the blood that was taken as part of a regular screening from newborn babies, in Denmark. The blood samples were tested and the concentration level of vitamin D was ascertained in all the blood samples.

The researchers later found out that those babies, who developed schizophrenia, mostly had low levels of concentration of vitamin D. It was also found that the number of babies who developed Schizophrenia were twice as likely to have low concentration of vitamin D.

Vitamin D has already been commended for its importance in the overall growth of human bones and brain, and with this development, the importance of the vitamin in childcare has grown manifold.

John McGrath, head of the research, further emphasized the importance of improving the intake of vitamin D among pregnant women, as it would reduce the chances of the baby developing schizophrenia later on in life.