Papers/PMID:10997364
Vitamin A supplementation in acute diarrhea.
Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition2000The record
1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint · 1 null
What it reported
How to read these marksEvery finding here is a null result.
What did not
1 finding
all-trans-retinol — no detected effect on diarrhoea duration
Very limitedEvidence strength: very limited. Human evidence with major recorded weaknesses, or non-human, uncontrolled or unverified evidence.FindingNull result“No effect of vitamin A supplementation could be demonstrated on either the total duration of diarrhea (7.4 +/- 3.2 days in the treatment group vs. 7.8 +/- 3.1 days in the placebo group) or on its duration after intervention (3.8 +/- 2.3 days in the treatment group vs. 3.9 +/- 1.9 days in the placebo group; P > 0.05 for both comparisons).”
Quoted verbatim from Vitamin A supplementation in acute diarrhea.. - Study
- RCT
- Dose
- single oral dose of 100,000 IU vitamin A
- Population
- Non-malnourished infants aged 6 to 12 months admitted to hospital with acute diarrhea; unit reported in days
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