Papers/PMID:18558641
Effect of 50,000 IU vitamin A given with BCG vaccine on mortality in infants in Guinea-Bissau: randomised placebo controlled trial.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)2008The 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 all-cause mortality
Very limitedEvidence strength: very limited. Human evidence with major recorded weaknesses, or non-human, uncontrolled or unverified evidence.FindingNull resultreplicated ×2“Vitamin A supplementation was not significantly associated with mortality; the mortality rate ratio was 1.07 (95% confidence interval 0.79 to 1.44).”
Quoted verbatim from Effect of 50,000 IU vitamin A given with BCG vaccine on mortality in infants in Guinea-Bissau: randomised placebo controlled trial.. - Study
- RCT
- Dose
- 50,000 IU vitamin A given with BCG vaccine at birth, versus placebo
- Population
- Infants in Guinea-Bissau due to receive BCG vaccine at birth, followed until age 12 months; whole randomised cohort
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