{"id":5644,"date":"2022-09-13T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-a-supplements-reduce-morbidity-and-mortality-in-children-in-developing-countries\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:15","slug":"vitamin-a-supplements-reduce-morbidity-and-mortality-in-children-in-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-a-supplements-reduce-morbidity-and-mortality-in-children-in-developing-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin A supplements reduce morbidity and mortality in children in developing countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This review, conducted by several American and Canadian research institutes, gives an overview of studies investigating the effects of vitamin A on general morbidity and mortality in children aged between 6 and 59 months in low- and middle-income countries. The review shows that vitamin A significantly reduces general morbidity and mortality as an underlying cause of vitamin A deficiency. For example, all-cause mortality, including mortality resulting from diarrhea, was reduced by 12%. Moreover, vitamin A supplementation significantly reduced the incidence and severity of diarrhea and measles. More details can be found in the review.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Imdad et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6464706\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This review, conducted by several American and Canadian research institutes, gives an overview of studies investigating the effects of vitamin A on general morbidity and mortality in children aged between 6 and 59 months in low- and middle-income countries. The review shows that vitamin A significantly reduces general morbidity and mortality as an underlying&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1870],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644"}],"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=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6363,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}