Menstrual and women's health is the main area connected here, and any felt benefit should be read together with the human evidence base.
Representative tier calculated from paper evidence that passed the collection audit.
The representative ingredient tier is calculated from these target-level evidence groups.
10 new papers were added in this period. No new risk signal was identified.
Standalone side-effect signals and combination cautions are listed separately.
No standalone side-effect or combination signal is currently clear enough to show from the collected papers. This does not mean there is no concern.
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New evidence for both prevalence and absolute burden of vitamin A deficiency should be used to reconsider, and possibly revise, the list of priority countries for high-dose vitamin A supplementation such that a country's priority status takes into account both
This work examined data from 82 countries implementing VAS programs, identified other VA programs, and assessed the recentness of national VA deficiency (VAD) data, and identified three countries that have scaled down VAS, but given the lack of VA deficiency d
β-Carotene from maize was efficacious when consumed as a staple food in this population and could avoid the potential for hypervitaminosis A that was observed with the use of preformed VA from supplementation and fortification.
Beta-carotene and vitamin E in doses higher than the RDA seem to significantly increase mortality, whereas the authors lack information on vitamin A.
An extensive review of the literature was conducted to identify conflicting or incomplete data on the topic as well as any gaps in existing data, and recommend routine prenatal vitamin A supplementation for the prevention of maternal and infant morbidity and m
A systematic review of published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-experimental (QE) studies found that vaccination was effective in preventing measles disease and vitamin A treatment found no significant reduction in measles morality.