Papers/PMID:21154399
Vitamin A supplementation for preventing morbidity and mortality in children from 6 months to 5 years of age.
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews2010The 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“At follow-up, there was a 24% observed reduction in the risk of all-cause mortality for Vitamin A compared with Control (Relative risk (RR) = 0.76 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.69, 0.83]).”
Quoted verbatim from Vitamin A supplementation for preventing morbidity and mortality in children from 6 months to 5 years of age.. - Study
- meta-analysis
- Population
- Community-living children aged 6 months to 5 years in low and middle income countries; 17 trials pooled for all-cause mortality
Effect 0.76 risk ratio, 95% CI 0.69 to 0.83
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