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American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 81, Issue 12 1654-1656, Copyright © 1991 by American Public Health Association

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The impact of vitamin A supplementation on morbidity: a randomized community intervention trial.

M H Abdeljaber, A S Monto, R L Tilden, M A Schork and I Tarwotjo

School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.

A randomized community trial investigated the impact of vitamin A supplementation on symptoms of respiratory and enteric infections among Indonesian children aged 1 to 5 years. A sample of 450 villages had been randomized into 229 villages that received vitamin A distribution and 221 that were observed as controls. The prevalence rates of cough, fever, and diarrhea were reduced in the treatment villages compared with the control villages by 8%, 5%, and 11%, respectively, but the reduction was not statistically significant. These results indicate that vitamin A supplements did not produce a substantial reduction in these symptoms, in spite of a reported reduction in all-cause mortality.


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