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7702031

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-5-1
pubmed:abstractText
Two companion, randomized, placebo-controlled trials of prophylactic vitamin A supplementation provided the opportunity to assess the impact of supplementation on malaria parasitemia, morbidity, and mortality in young children in northern Ghana. In the mortality study, 21,906 children were visited every 4 mo over 2 y, and in the morbidity study 1455 children were visited weekly for 1 y. There was no difference between children supplemented with vitamin A and those given placebo in malaria mortality rates (rate ratio = 1.03; 95% CI 0.74, 1.43) or fever incidence based on reported symptoms. Malaria parasitemia rates, parasite densities in children with a positive blood smear, and rates of probable malaria illness also did not differ between treatment groups. There was no correlation between serum retinol at the beginning of the trial and subsequent malaria parasitemia in children who received placebo (r = 0.01). It is concluded that vitamin A supplementation had no impact on malaria in this population.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0002-9165
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
61
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
853-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Vitamin A supplementation and childhood malaria in northern Ghana.
pubmed:affiliation
Ministry of Health, Ghana.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't