Papers/PMID:16825698
Effect of maternal and neonatal vitamin A supplementation and other postnatal factors on anemia in Zimbabwean infants: a prospective, randomized study.
The American journal of clinical nutrition2006The 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 blood haemoglobin concentration
Very limitedEvidence strength: very limited. Human evidence with major recorded weaknesses, or non-human, uncontrolled or unverified evidence.FindingNull resultreplicated ×1“Vitamin A supplementation had no effect on hemoglobin or anemia (hemoglobin <105 g/L) in unadjusted or adjusted analyses.”
Quoted verbatim from Effect of maternal and neonatal vitamin A supplementation and other postnatal factors on anemia in Zimbabwean infants: a prospective, randomized study.. - Study
- RCT
- Dose
- single doses of 400,000 IU to mothers and 50,000 IU to infants within 96 h of delivery
- Population
- Zimbabwean infants aged 8-14 mo in an anemia substudy; mothers and/or infants given vitamin A or placebo within 96 h of delivery in a 2-by-2 design
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