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SUPPLEMENTATION & INFECTIONS

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Effect of vitamin A supplementation on infections

Vitamin A supplementation of children in areas with sub-clinical vitamin A deficiency:

  • reduced mortality among children from 6 months to 5 years with 23 %
  • death due to measles or diarrhea was reduced, but no effect on respiratory infections were observed
  • no difference in risk of infection, but in vitamin A deficiency infections were significantly more severe