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Impact of supplementing newborn infants with vitamin A on early infant mortality: community based randomised trial in southern India.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)2003The record
1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint
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1 finding
all-trans-retinol — decreases all-cause mortality
Very limitedEvidence strength: very limited. Human evidence with major recorded weaknesses, or non-human, uncontrolled or unverified evidence.Findingreplicated ×10“Infants in the vitamin A group had a 22% reduction in total mortality (95% confidence interval 4% to 37%) compared with those in the placebo group.”
Quoted verbatim from Impact of supplementing newborn infants with vitamin A on early infant mortality: community based randomised trial in southern India.. - Study
- RCT
- Dose
- 24 000 IU oral vitamin A on days 1 and 2 after delivery, against placebo
- Population
- Newborn infants in two rural districts of Tamil Nadu, southern India, community based trial
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