Papers/PMID:18595969
Newborn vitamin A supplementation reduced infant mortality in rural Bangladesh.
Pediatrics2008The record
1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint
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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“Relative to control subjects, the risk of death in vitamin A-supplemented infants was 0.85, reflecting a 15% reduction in all-cause mortality.”
Quoted verbatim from Newborn vitamin A supplementation reduced infant mortality in rural Bangladesh.. - Study
- RCT
- Duration
- 6 months
- Dose
- single 50000 IU dose at birth
- Population
- Newborn infants in rural northwest Bangladesh, community-based double-masked cluster-randomized trial, dosed within 30 days of birth (median age 7 hours); trial nested in a maternal weekly vitamin A or beta-carotene supplementation trial balanced across arms
Effect 0.85 risk ratio
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