Two different doses of supplemental vitamin A did not affect mortality of normal-birth-weight neonates in Guinea-bissau in a randomized controlled trial

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 144, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1474-1479

  Benn, Christine S ^a,c   Diness, Birgitte R ^a   Balde, Ibraima ^b   Rodrigues, Amabelia ^b   Lausch, Karen R ^a   Martins, Cesario L ^b   Fisker, Ane B ^a   Aaby, Peter ^a,b  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b BANDIM HEALTH PROJECT   (Guinea-Bissau)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; RETINOL; VITAMIN;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; VITAMIN A; VITAMINS;

EID: 84906895611     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.114.192674     Document Type: Article

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