Papers/PMID:31268140
Vitamin A Supplementation Was Associated with Reduced Mortality in Patients with Ebola Virus Disease during the West African Outbreak.
The Journal of nutrition2019The 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“In the propensity-matched analysis, mortality was significantly lower among cases receiving vitamin A (RR = 0.77, 95% CI: 0.59, 0.99; P = 0.041).”
Quoted verbatim from Vitamin A Supplementation Was Associated with Reduced Mortality in Patients with Ebola Virus Disease during the West African Outbreak.. - Study
- cohort
- Dose
- 200,000 IU of vitamin A on care days 1 and/or 2
- Population
- Patients with Ebola virus disease admitted to 5 International Medical Corps Ebola Treatment Units in 2 countries, 2014-2015; 1:1 propensity-score matched analysis of cases given vitamin A against cases not given it
Effect 0.77 risk ratio, 95% CI 0.59 to 0.99
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