Background & aims The vitamin A nutritional status is marginal for most of the newborns,
and the prevention of that deficiency is promoted by breastfeeding. The Ministry of Health of …

The study aimed to estimate the dietary intake of vitamin A and its major food sources
among rural pregnant women from the southwest region of Bangladesh. A multi-stage …

Infants are born with negligible liver stores of vitamin A. to enable some storage of the
vitamin, the infant needs to be predominantly breastfed with milk containing at least 30 μg/dl …

Background Vitamin A supplementation of mothers postpartum may improve infant health,
not only by increasing vitamin A delivery to the infant through breast milk but also by …

Background: More information is needed on the efficacy of carotenoids from plant foods in
improving vitamin A status. Objective: We aimed to quantify the efficacy of provitamin A–rich …

Early fetal vitamin A supplies must be regulated to avoid teratogenic consequences from too
little or too much. Late in gestation, adequate maternal vitamin A status is important for …

Women in developing countries generally have lower dietary vitamin A intakes and produce
breast milk with less vitamin A as compared to women in developed countries1. Women with …

OBJECTIVE: To provide information on the potential contribution to vitamin A nutrition in
infants of strategies for improving maternal vitamin A status and increasing the consumption …

A high percentage of women in their childbearing years suffer from subclinical vitamin A
deficiency; 10% to 20% of pregnant women worldwide are vitamin A deficient. This study …