Papers/PMID:31209560
Oral vitamin A supplementation in very low birth weight neonates: a randomized controlled trial.
European journal of pediatrics2019The record
1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint
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1 finding
all-trans-retinol — decreases hospital length of stay
Very limitedEvidence strength: very limited. Human evidence with major recorded weaknesses, or non-human, uncontrolled or unverified evidence.Findingreplicated ×3“Requirement and duration of oxygen supplementation and non-invasive respiratory support, incidences of late-onset sepsis, patent ductus arteriosus, and duration of hospital stay were also significantly lower in vitamin A group.”
Quoted verbatim from Oral vitamin A supplementation in very low birth weight neonates: a randomized controlled trial.. - Study
- RCT
- Duration
- 4 weeks
- Dose
- aqueous syrup of vitamin A, 10,000 IU of retinol per dose on alternate days for 28 days, versus placebo
- Population
- inborn very-low birth weight infants requiring respiratory support at 24 h of age; secondary outcome
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