Maternal night blindness increases risk of mortality in the first 6 months of life among infants in Nepal.
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Summary
6-mo mortality was higher among infants of women who had night blindness during pregnancy, and Maternal receipt of vitamin A reduced this risk.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2001-05-01
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 6
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W1906541262
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Keywords
Medicine, Pregnancy, Blindness, Placebo, Vitamin
References
- Maternal low-dose vitamin A or beta-carotene supplementation has no effect on fetal loss and early infant mortality: a randomized cluster trial in Nepal.
- An ethnographic study of night blindness "ratauni" among women in the Terai of Nepal.
- Double blind, cluster randomised trial of low dose supplementation with vitamin A or βcarotene on mortality related to pregnancy in Nepal
- Night blindness during pregnancy and subsequent mortality among women in Nepal: effects of vitamin A and beta-carotene supplementation.
- Night blindness of pregnancy in rural Nepal--nutritional and health risks.
- Vitamin A or beta-carotene supplementation reduces but does not eliminate maternal night blindness in Nepal.
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