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Article: Vitamin A supplementation fails to reduce incidence of acute respiratory illness and diarrhea in preschool-age Indonesian children
- Article from:
- The Journal of Nutrition
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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Vitamin A Supplementation Fails to Reduce incidence of Acute Respiratory illness and Diarrhea in Preschool-Age Indonesian Children(1,2)
Vitamin A deficiency is a major nutritional deficiency among preschool-age children from the developing world with == 14 million having had eye damage from vitamin A deficiency and over 190 million being at risk of vitamin A deficiency (ACC/SCN 1993). Prospective, controlled community trials of vitamin A supplementation in deficient populations have demonstrated an average reduction in childhood mortality of 23 (Beaton et al. 1993) to 30% (Fawiz et al. 1993, Glasziou Mackerras 1993). However, the mechanisms by which vitamin A supplementation reduces ...