{"id":5622,"date":"2022-09-13T10:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/combination-of-vitamin-a-and-zinc-reduces-malaria-morbidity-in-children\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:05","slug":"combination-of-vitamin-a-and-zinc-reduces-malaria-morbidity-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/combination-of-vitamin-a-and-zinc-reduces-malaria-morbidity-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Combination of vitamin A and zinc reduces malaria morbidity in children"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study, conducted by scientists from several research institutes in Ghana, Austria, and the USA, investigated the impact of vitamin A alone compared to a combination of vitamin A and zinc on the incidence of malaria. 200 children aged between 6 and 24 months were divided into two groups. Participants in the intervention group received a supplement containing vitamin A and zinc. Participants in the placebo group received a placebo product, which only included vitamin A. Study results showed a 27% lower incidence of malaria in the supplemented group compared with the control group. This study showed a significant role of vitamin A and zinc in reducing malaria morbidity. Please see the study for more details.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Owusu-Agyei et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/24330422\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study, conducted by scientists from several research institutes in Ghana, Austria, and the USA, investigated the impact of vitamin A alone compared to a combination of vitamin A and zinc on the incidence of malaria. 200 children aged between 6 and 24 months were divided into two groups. Participants in the intervention group&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\/5622"}],"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=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6341,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/6341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}