Recovery from impaired dark adaptation in nightblind pregnant Nepali women who receive small daily doses of vitamin A as amaranth leaves, carrots, goat liver, vitamin A-fortified rice, or retinyl palmitate

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 461-471

  Haskell, Marjorie J ^a   Pandey, Pooja ^b   Graham, Joanne M ^b   Peerson, Janet M ^b   Shrestha, Ram K ^b   Brown, Kenneth H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dark adaptation; Food based interventions; Nepal; Nightblindness; Pregnancy; Pupillary threshold; Supplementation; Vitamin A; Vitamin A status; carotene

Indexed keywords

AMARANTH; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; RETINOL; RETINOL PALMITATE; ZINC; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CARROT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DARK ADAPTATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GOAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIVER; NEPAL; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; RICE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET; DIET THERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; MEAT; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMARANTHUS CAUDATUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; DAUCUS CAROTA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; DARK ADAPTATION; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; GOATS; HUMANS; LIVER; MEAT; NEPAL; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 14544290614     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn.81.2.461     Document Type: Article

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