Vitamin A study

Vitamin A study

Vitamin A supplements could save the lives of 600,000 children a year.

An international study suggests that giving Vitamin A supplements to children in low and middle income countries could significantly cut rates of mortality, illnesses and blindness amongst those below the age of five.

Researchers from the University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention and Pakistan's Aga Khan University have shown that vitamin A supplements reduce mortality amongst children from low and middle income countries by nearly a quarter (24 per cent).

Press release

Additional information:

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.d5094

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.d5294

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