Rahmathullah Lakshmi, Tielsch James M, Thulasiraj R D, Katz Joanne, Coles Christian, Devi Sheela, John Rajeesh, Prakash Karthik, Sadanand A V, Edwin N, Kamaraj C
Aravind Centre for Women, Children and Community Health, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
BMJ. 2003 Aug 2;327(7409):254. doi: 10.1136/bmj.327.7409.254.
To assess the impact of supplementing newborn infants with vitamin A on mortality at age 6 months.
Community based, randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial.
Two rural districts of Tamil Nadu, southern India.
11 619 newborn infants allocated 24 000 IU oral vitamin A or placebo on days 1 and 2 after delivery.
Primary outcome measure was mortality at age 6 months.
Infants in the vitamin A group had a 22% reduction in total mortality (95% confidence interval 4% to 37%) compared with those in the placebo group. Vitamin A had an impact on mortality between two weeks and three months after treatment, with no additional impact after three months.
Supplementing newborn infants with vitamin A can significantly reduce early infant mortality.
评估给新生儿补充维生素A对6个月龄时死亡率的影响。
基于社区的随机双盲安慰剂对照试验。
印度南部泰米尔纳德邦的两个农村地区。
11619名新生儿在出生后第1天和第2天被分配口服24000国际单位维生素A或安慰剂。
主要结局指标是6个月龄时的死亡率。
与安慰剂组相比,维生素A组的总死亡率降低了22%(95%置信区间为4%至37%)。维生素A对治疗后两周至三个月之间的死亡率有影响,三个月后无额外影响。
给新生儿补充维生素A可显著降低早期婴儿死亡率。