Objective: To identify the frequency of vitamin A deficiency in children aged 6 months to 5
years hospitalized for pneumonia. Methods: An integrative literature review was carried out …

Objective: To identify the frequency of vitamin A deficiency in children aged 6 months to 5
years hospitalized for pneumonia. Methods: An integrative literature review was carried out …

BACKGROUND: Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) has been closely related to acute respiratory
infections (ARI), although information is still incomplete; for example, the frequency of VAD …

Interventions Thirty-four hospitalised patients with pneumonia were randomly allocated into
two groups: the study group, besides the routine treatment, received a high dose of aqueous …

objective To evaluate the impact of large‐dose vitamin A supplementation given to infants>
6 months old (200 000 IU) and to preschool children aged 1–4 years (400 000 IU) during a …

Objective. To test the hypothesis that high-dose vitamin A supplements will enhance
recovery of children hospitalized for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia …

We carried out a randomized, placebo‐controlled, double‐blinded trial to evaluate the effect
on morbidity of high dose oral vitamin A, given on hospital admission to 592 children aged 1 …

Background: The leading cause of mortality in children under five years of age is acute lower
respiratory tract infections, especially bronchiolitis and pneumonia. Vitamin A supplement …

Vitamin A deficiency and acute lower respiratory tract infections coexist as important public
health problems in many developing countries. We carried out a randomized, double-blind …

Objective. This study evaluated the association between vitamin A status and the severity of
acute respiratory infections (AAIs) in children, controlling for the influence of other known AAI …