Mengesha, Wende Menkir, Abebe Meseka, Silvestro Bossey, Bunmi Afolabi, Agbona Burgueno, Juan Crossa, Jose
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Euphytica
Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD) is a major public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa affecting 33 million preschool-age children. Enrichment of maize varieties with provitamin A could provide sustainable and affordable solution to VAD. This study was conducted to understand the extent of GEI effects on both grain yield and provitamin A content in 21 m...
Zhang, Xuepeng Yang, Kaiying Chen, Linwen Liao, Xuelian Deng, Liping Chen, Siyuan Ji, Yi
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Critical Care
BackgroundData that indicate vitamin A status in critically ill children with sepsis are sparse. The association between serum vitamin A levels and the clinical outcomes of sepsis has not been well assessed. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency in critically ill children with sepsis and its association with cli...
Kinlin, Laura M Vresk, Laura Friedman, Jeremy N
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Paediatrics & child health
Greiner, Ted Mason, John Benn, Christine Stabell Sachdev, H. P. S.
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The Indian Journal of Pediatrics
High dose vitamin A (HDVA) concentrate began to be distributed in India in 1970 as a short-term, stop-gap approach to reduce clinical signs of vitamin A deficiency. As this problem declined globally, the purpose of distributing them changed to the reduction of young child mortality. However, their impact on this has also declined, if not disappeare...
Wu, Daphne Chen Nee Corbett, Kitty Horton, Susan Saleh, Nadira Mosha, Theobald Ce
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Public health nutrition
To evaluate the effectiveness of a social marketing intervention in enhancing knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) related to consumption of vitamin A-fortified oil. The intervention employed community events, distribution of educational materials and radio broadcasts. The intervention was assessed in a quasi-experimental non-equivalent control ...
Jenkins, Mica Shanks, Carmen Byker Brouwer, Roland Houghtaling, Bailey
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Food Security
The addition of orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) to the food environment is an effective nutrition-sensitive agricultural approach to improve vitamin A intakes. However, the adoption of this biofortified crop merits further study. The objective of our research was to understand factors that affect Mozambican farmers’ adoption and retention of OFS...
timoneda, joaquín rodríguez-fernández, lucía zaragozá, rosa marín, m. pilar cabezuelo, m. teresa torres, luis viña, juan r. barber, teresa
Vitamin A (all-trans-retinol) is a fat-soluble micronutrient which together with its natural derivatives and synthetic analogues constitutes the group of retinoids. They are involved in a wide range of physiological processes such as embryonic development, vision, immunity and cellular differentiation and proliferation. Retinoic acid (RA) is the ma...
Chen, Chong Tan, Haining Bi, Jiaqi Li, Zheng Rong, Tianhua Lin, Youxi Sun, Liang Li, Xingye Shen, Jianxiong
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Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry
Background/Aims: Congenital scoliosis (CS) is a result of anomalous development of vertebrae and is frequently associated with somitogenesis malformation. Although noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been recently determined to be involved in the pathogenesis of CS, the competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) regulatory networks in CS remain largely unknown. Met...
Ayogu, Rufina N. B. Afiaenyi, Ifeoma C. Madukwe, Edith U. Udenta, Elizabeth A.
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundSchool children in developing countries like Nigeria are faced with numerous nutrition and health problems. Lack of functional school health and nutrition programmes in Enugu state, Nigeria may be associated with dearth of data on associated factors. Identifying these factors could inform the design and implementation of school-based prog...
Chaudhry, Aeysha Bushra Hajat, Shakoor Rizkallah, Najwa Abu-Rub, Ala’a
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Conflict and Health
BackgroundVitamin A and D are essential for the proper growth and development of a child. Due to the complex political circumstances in the state of Palestine, research on micronutrient deficiency is scarce.MethodsThe Palestinian Ministry of Health (MOH) and UNICEF conducted a national cross-sectional survey in 2013 after the implementation of vari...
