{"id":321,"date":"2022-09-13T10:55:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/vitamin-a-deficiency-contributes-to-mother-to-child-transmission-of-hiv\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:55:36","slug":"vitamin-a-deficiency-contributes-to-mother-to-child-transmission-of-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-a-deficiency-contributes-to-mother-to-child-transmission-of-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin A deficiency contributes to mother-to-child transmission of HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>Studies show that around 10-40% of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) positive women will give birth to children who are also infected. This study evaluated the vitamin A status in pregnant women as a risk factor for mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Blood levels of vitamin A were measured in 338 HIV-positive mothers. In 74 mothers who transmitted HIV to their infants vitamin A concentrations were lower than those in 264 mothers who did not transmit HIV to their infants. Based on these results, the authors concluded that maternal vitamin A deficiency contributes to mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Further detail can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>R D Semba,\u00a0P G Miotti,\u00a0J D Chiphangwi,\u00a0A J Saah,\u00a0J K Canner,\u00a0G A Dallabetta,\u00a0D R Hoover<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/7911919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Studies show that around 10-40% of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) positive women will give birth to children who are also infected. This study evaluated the vitamin A status in pregnant women as a risk factor for mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Blood levels of vitamin A were measured in 338 HIV-positive mothers. In 74 mothers&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":[1127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6075,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/6075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}