{"id":3782,"date":"2022-09-13T10:57:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/oral-vitamin-a-supplementation-decreases-death-rate-in-low-birth-weight-premature-infants\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:57:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:20","slug":"oral-vitamin-a-supplementation-decreases-death-rate-in-low-birth-weight-premature-infants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/oral-vitamin-a-supplementation-decreases-death-rate-in-low-birth-weight-premature-infants\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral vitamin A supplementation decreases death rate in low birth weight premature infants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study was conducted in 196 premature infants on alternate days during a period of 28 days. 98 infants received 10000 IU vitamin A, and 98 received a placebo supplement. This study showed that through supplementation of vitamin A the all-cause death rate and oxygen requirements decreased in this vulnerable group of patients. Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Basu et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31209560\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study was conducted in 196 premature infants on alternate days during a period of 28 days. 98 infants received 10000 IU vitamin A, and 98 received a placebo supplement. This study showed that through supplementation of vitamin A the all-cause death rate and oxygen requirements decreased in this vulnerable group of patients. Further&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782"}],"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=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6241,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/6241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}