{"id":308,"date":"2022-09-13T10:55:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/vitamin-a-supplements-reduce-death-rate-among-hiv-infected-children\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:55:28","slug":"vitamin-a-supplements-reduce-death-rate-among-hiv-infected-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-a-supplements-reduce-death-rate-among-hiv-infected-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin A supplements reduce death rate among HIV-infected children"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study determined whether vitamin A supplements reduce the number of deaths among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and uninfected children. 687 children with pneumonia were given vitamin A or a placebo. Their blood was then tested for HIV. Among HIV-infected children, vitamin A supplements reduced deaths \u2013 regardless of their cause \u2013 by 63%.Among uninfected children, vitamin A supplementation reduced deaths by 42%. The researchers indicated that vitamin A supplements are a low-cost measure to reduce deaths among HIV-infected children. More details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>W W Fawzi,\u00a0R L Mbise,\u00a0E Hertzmark,\u00a0M R Fataki,\u00a0M G Herrera,\u00a0G Ndossi,\u00a0D Spiegelman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/10048684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study determined whether vitamin A supplements reduce the number of deaths among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and uninfected children. 687 children with pneumonia were given vitamin A or a placebo. Their blood was then tested for HIV. Among HIV-infected children, vitamin A supplements reduced deaths \u2013 regardless of their cause \u2013 by 63%.Among&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6062,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/6062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}