Vitamin A supplementation for extremely-low-birth-weight infants

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 340, Issue 25, 1999, Pages 1962-1968

  Tyson, Jon E ^a,l   Wright, Linda L ^b   Oh, William ^c   Kennedy, Kathleen A ^a   Mele, Lisa ^d   Ehrenkranz, Richard A ^e   Stoll, Barbara J ^f   Lemons, James A ^g   Stevenson, David K ^h   Bauer, Charles R ⁱ   Korones, Sheldon B ^j   Fanaroff, Avroy A ^k   Donovan, Edward F ^r   Carlo, Waldemer A ^m   Shankaran, Seetha ⁿ   Stark, Anne R ^o   Papile, Lu Ann ^p   Jobe, Alan ^r   Stacewiscz Sapuntzakis, Maria ^q   Verter, Joel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^k CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UT Houston   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

ⁿ WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^r NONE

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN INTAKE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LUNG DISEASES; SEPSIS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; VITAMIN A;

EID: 0033600279     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199906243402505     Document Type: Article

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