Studies on hypovitaminosis a in Brazil and other Latin American countries
| Autor: | W. K. Simmons |
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| Rok vydání: | 1976 |
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Vitamin
Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Latin Americans Ecology business.industry Public health Hypovitaminosis A Medicine (miscellaneous) Northeast brazil General Medicine medicine.disease Measles chemistry.chemical_compound Malnutrition Hypovitaminosis chemistry Environmental health Medicine business Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 5:51-55 |
| ISSN: | 1543-5237 0367-0244 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03670244.1976.9990445 |
| Popis: | Hypovitaminosis A, as confirmed by dietary, biochemical data, and clinical sign, is a public health problem in Northeast Brazil, the area most seriously affected in Latin America. In a one year period about 1,000 pre‐school age children go blind from hypovitaminosis A. Current research consists of a nutrition survey in the three areas of the State of Pernambuco, the testing of the relationship between measles and vitamin A, and vitamin A absorption tests on children suffering from first and second degree malnutrition. Future programs will be aimed at eradicating hypovitaminosis A from Northeast Brazil. There will be the distribution of massive doses of 200,000 I.U. of vitamin A palmitate every six months to pre‐school age children in certain areas, and sugar will be fortified with vitamin A. |
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