Papers/PMID:28513263
Mortality Benefits of Vitamin A Are Not Affected by Varying Frequency, Total Dose, or Duration of Supplementation.
Food and nutrition bulletin2017The record
1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint
What it reported
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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“Compared with control, vitamin A reduced mortality 22% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 10-32; P = 0.002).”
Quoted verbatim from Mortality Benefits of Vitamin A Are Not Affected by Varying Frequency, Total Dose, or Duration of Supplementation.. - Study
- meta-analysis
- Dose
- relatively standard WHO doses; supplementation frequency every 3 months to every 2 years, duration 4-60 months
- Population
- Children under 5 years in 17 randomised trials of vitamin A supplementation at relatively standard WHO doses
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