Vitamin A supplementation of South African children with severe diarrhea: Optimum timing for improving biochemical and clinical recovery and subsequent vitamin A status

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 284-289

  Rollins, Nigel C ^a   Filteau, Suzanne M ^b   Elson, Inga ^a   Tomkins, Andrew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Diarrhea; Intestinal permeability; Modified relative dose response; Neopterin; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; RETINOL;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOUTH AFRICA; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN METABOLISM; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOUTH AFRICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN A; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE;

EID: 0033997341     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-200004000-00004     Document Type: Article

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