{"id":5621,"date":"2022-09-13T10:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/combined-vitamin-a-and-zinc-supplementation-leads-to-significant-reduction-of-malaria-morbidity-in-african-children\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:05","slug":"combined-vitamin-a-and-zinc-supplementation-leads-to-significant-reduction-of-malaria-morbidity-in-african-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/combined-vitamin-a-and-zinc-supplementation-leads-to-significant-reduction-of-malaria-morbidity-in-african-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Combined vitamin A and zinc supplementation leads to significant reduction of malaria morbidity in African children"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study, conducted by researchers from Burkina Faso, the USA, and Austria, investigated the effects of a combined vitamin A and zinc supplementation on Malaria morbidity in children aged between 6 and 72 months in Burkina Faso. Children were divided into two groups of each 74 participants. One group received the micronutrient supplement, and the other group received a placebo product 6 days a week. Results showed, among others, a significant reduction in malaria cases in the supplemented group (34%) compared to the placebo group (3.5%). It was concluded that a combination of vitamin A and zinc could reduce the risk of malaria among children. For more details, please refer to the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Zeba et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/18237394\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study, conducted by researchers from Burkina Faso, the USA, and Austria, investigated the effects of a combined vitamin A and zinc supplementation on Malaria morbidity in children aged between 6 and 72 months in Burkina Faso. Children were divided into two groups of each 74 participants. One group received the micronutrient supplement, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621"}],"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=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6340,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions\/6340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}