Time to stop giving indiscriminate massive doses of synthetic vitamin A to Indian children

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 285-286

  Kapil, Umesh ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE; RETINOL;

BLINDNESS; CHILD HEALTH; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDIAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALNUTRITION; NOTE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SIDE EFFECT; XEROPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 62249157860     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008004448     Document Type: Note

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