Vitamin A supplementation every 6 months with retinol in 1 million pre-school children in north India: DEVTA, a cluster-randomised trial

The Lancet

Volumn 381, Issue 9876, 2013, Pages 1469-1477

  Awasthi, Shally ^a   Peto, Richard ^b   Read, Simon ^b   Clark, Sarah ^b   Pande, Vinod ^a   Bundy, Donald ^c  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; HEMOGLOBIN; RETINOL;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 84877579096     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62125-4     Document Type: Article

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