The effect of neonatal vitamin A supplementation on growth in the first year of life among low-birth-weight infants in Guinea-Bissau: two by two factorial randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) may amplify the effect of vaccines. We therefore investigated if neonatal VAS given with and without Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine to low-birth-weight (LBW) neonates had an effect on growth in the first year of life. We hypothesised that VAS would...

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Autores principales: Biering-Sørensen, Sofie, Fisker, Ane Bærent, Ravn, Henrik, Camala, Luis, Monteiro, Ivan, Aaby, Peter, Benn, Christine Stabell
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23702185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-13-87

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3680237/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23702185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-13-87

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