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Different Doses of Vitamin A and Childhood Morbidity and Mortality

NCT00168584 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 5400

Last updated 2005-09-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Vitamin A supplementation reduces all-cause mortality. It is therefore given with oral polio vaccine in national campaigns. However, it is not clear which dose is optimal. The two studies that have investigated the impact of different doses of vitamin A have both found that a smaller dose was better than a large dose. We therefore investigated if a smaller dose given with oral polio vaccine gives equal or better effect.

Conditions

  • Mortality
  • Morbidity

Interventions

DRUG

Vitamin A

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bandim Health Project

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Peter Aaby, DMSc · Bandim Health Project

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
5 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-11-30
Completion
2003-08-31

Countries

  • Guinea-Bissau

Study Locations

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