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Lower dose zinc for childhood diarrhea: a randomized, multicenter trial
BACKGROUND: The WHO recommends 20 mg/day of supplemental zinc for children with acute diarrhea for 10-14 days; in previous trials this dosage improved diarrhea but increased vomiting. METHODS: We randomly assigned 4500 children ages 6 to 59 months in India and Tanzania with acute diarrhea to one of...
Autores principales: | Dhingra, Usha, Kisenge, Rodrick, Sudfeld, Christopher R., Dhingra, Pratibha, Somji, Sarah, Dutta, Arup, Bakari, Mohamed, Deb, Saikat, Devi, Prabhabati, Liu, Enju, Chauhan, Aishwarya, Kumar, Jitendra, Semwal, Om Prakash, Aboud, Said, Bahl, Rajiv, Ashorn, Per, Simon, Jonathon, Duggan, Christopher P., Sazawal, Sunil, Manji, Karim |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Massachusetts Medical Society
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7466932/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32966722 http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1915905 |
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