ALLMedicine™ Vitamin A Deficiency Center

Mar 15th, 2023 - Vitamin A deficiency affects an estimated 29% of all children under 5 years of age in low/middle-income countries, contributing to child mortality and exacerbating severity of infections. Biannual vitamin A supplementation (VAS) for children aged ...

Mar 12th, 2023 - Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of neurodevelopmental disorders defined by a lack of social behaviors, repetitive behaviors and nonverbal interactions, such as limited eye contact, facial expression, and body gesturing. It is not a singl...

Mar 10th, 2023 - Along with the growing interest in oxylipins is an increasing awareness of multiple sources of variability in oxylipin data. This review summarizes recent findings that highlight the experimental and biological sources of variation in free oxylipi...

Mar 3rd, 2023 - Iron deficiency is the commonest micronutrient deficiency worldwide and the major cause of specific anemia - iron deficiency anemia. Iron is an essential mineral with lots of functions in the human body; its deficiency is associated with cognitive...

Feb 25th, 2023 - Low soil nitrogen (low-N), Striga hermonthica infestation and vitamin A deficiency in normal endosperm maize are major challenges confronting maize production and nutrition of the people of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Development of pro-vitamin A (P...

Mar 3rd, 2023 - Iron deficiency is the commonest micronutrient deficiency worldwide and the major cause of specific anemia - iron deficiency anemia. Iron is an essential mineral with lots of functions in the human body; its deficiency is associated with cognitive...

Nov 21st, 2022 - Rationale: Vitamin A deficiency is still common in developing countries and has been proven difficult to combat. A promising approach is to replace common crops with varieties that are naturally richer in vitamin A, which is referred to as biofort...

Jul 19th, 2022 - The investigator's overarching goal is to determine if there is a pathophysiologic rationale for vitamin A supplementation in the treatment of vocal fold hyperkeratosis. Vocal fold hyperkeratosis is an accumulation of epithelial surface keratin re...

Feb 11th, 2022 - Globally An estimated 140-250 million under-five children are deficient in vitamin A, which is associated with increased mortality and morbidity among this population. A relationship between the severity of vitamin A deficiency and childhood morta...

Jan 4th, 2022 - It was reported that the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency was highly as 58% in critically ill children with sepsis. However, whether those patients will benefit from the vitamin A supplementation is unknown. We design an randomized, double-blind...

Aug 6th, 2021 - The WHO's long-standing hemoglobin cutoffs for anemia do not match reality for people around the world, a cross-sectional study found. Pooled fifth percentile estimates of hemoglobin were 9.65 g/dL for children and 10.81 g/dL for women across 27 n...

May 2nd, 2019 - Measles Re-emerges Measles infections in the United States are reaching their highest level in decades, which means that most clinicians practicing in this country today have never actually seen a case of the highly contagious disease. Although me...

Feb 27th, 2019 - WASHINGTON -- The views that some House committee members expressed Wednesday in favor of vaccination brought to mind a line from a character on a British television show: "I am unanimous in this." "It wasn't until the development of the MMR [meas...

Feb 27th, 2019 - WASHINGTON -- The views that some House committee members expressed Wednesday in favor of vaccination brought to mind a line from a character on a British television show: "I am unanimous in this." "It wasn't until the development of the MMR [meas...

Apr 10th, 2017 - Subclinical forms of vitamin A deficiency may not cause any symptoms, but the risk of developing respiratory and diarrheal infections is increased, the growth rate is decreased, and bone development is slowed. Patients may have a recent history of...