A randomized trial to determine the optimal dosage of multivitamin supplements to reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes among HIV-infected women in Tanzania

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 391-397

  Kawai, Kosuke ^a   Kupka, Roland ^a,b   Mugusi, Ferdinand ^c   Aboud, Said ^c   Okuma, James ^a   Villamor, Eduardo ^a   Spiegelman, Donna ^a   Fawzi, Wafaie W ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Regional Office for West and Central Africa   (Senegal)

^c MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIVITAMIN;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; TANZANIA; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; NUTRITION POLICY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; TANZANIA; VITAMINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75649142934     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.28483     Document Type: Article

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