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Vitamin A deficiency in Brazilian Children younger than 5 years old: a systematic review [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, 2020 Objectives: to examine the nutritional status of vitamin A in Brazilian children under 5 years old, delimiting their deficiency and associated factors.
Dixis Figueroa Pedraza
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Micronutrient's deficiency in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Journal of Nutritional Science, 2021 India is coming to grips with a stage of nutrition transition. According to the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), preventable micronutrient deficiency is arising public health precedence in India.
U. Venkatesh +5 more
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Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology and Research, 2023 Purpose: The prevalence of Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is the highest in India among the South Asian countries. Suspected causes for this are insufficient dietary intake, lack of education, and a poor monitoring and surveillance system.
Samira Davalbhakta, Satish Shitole
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Objectives: This study aimed to explore the changes in infant vitamin A (VA) status and the effect of early VA supplementation on VA level throughout the first 6 months of life.Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted in Chongqing, China.
Huan Liu +6 more
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Vitamin A Deficiency and Its Association with Visceral Adiposity in Women
Biomedicines, 2023 Body adiposity is associated with increased metabolic risk, and evidence indicates that vitamin A is important in regulating body fat. The aim of this study was to evaluate serum concentrations of vitamin A and its association with body adiposity in ...
Érica Góes +3 more
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2021 Background: Vitamin D deficiency is common in the general population worldwide, and the prevalence and severity of vitamin D deficiency increase in critically ill patients.
Kuo-Wei Chen +19 more
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Vitamin D supplementation in systemic lupus erythematosus patients with vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency : the effect on disease activity, fatigue and interferon signature gene expression [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) [1]. Evidence from multiple studies has shown that vitamin D deficiency in SLE is associated with a higher disease activity [2].
Borg, Andrew +4 more
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The Metabolic Syndrome among Postmenopausal Women in Gorgan [PDF]
, 2012 In this study, we aimed to assess levels of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in relation to metabolic syndrome among postmenopausal women in Gorgan. The study group included 100 postmenopausal women who were referred to the different Health Centers in Gorgan ...
Marjani, A., Moghasemi, S.
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An Argument for Vitamin D, A, and Zinc Monitoring in Cirrhosis
Annals of Hepatology, 2018 Malnutrition is prevalent in cirrhosis. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies, including vitamin D, vitamin A, and zinc, are common and have been shown to correlate with survival.
Andree H. Koop +5 more
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The seasonality of tuberculosis, sunlight, vitamin D, and household crowding. [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Unlike other respiratory infections, tuberculosis diagnoses increase in summer. We performed an ecological analysis of this paradoxical seasonality in a Peruvian shantytown over 4 years. METHODS: Tuberculosis symptom-onset and diagnosis dates
Adams +38 more
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