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Vitamin A supplementation every 6 months with retinol in 1 million pre-school children in north India: DEVTA, a cluster-randomised trial
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Background In north India, vitamin A deficiency (retinol <0·70 μmol/L) is common in pre-school children and 2-3% die at ages 1·0-6·0 years. We aimed to assess whether periodic vitamin A supplementation could reduce this mortality.
Methods Participants in this cluster-randomised trial were pre-school children in the defined catchment areas of 8338 state-staffed village child-care centres (under-5 population 1 million) in 72 administrative blocks. Groups...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62125-4
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World Bank
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Medical Research Council
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United States Agency for International Development
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Lancet Journal website
- Volume:
- 381
- Issue:
- 9876
- Pages:
- 1469-1477
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-01
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1474-547X
- ISSN:
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0140-6736
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- pubs:402674
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402674
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- 2013-11-16
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- Elsevier Ltd
- Copyright date:
- 2013
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- Copyright 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Re-use of this article is permitted in accordance with the Terms and Conditions set out at http://www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/
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