Lung Development, Lung Function, and Retinoids
| Autor: | Donald Massaro, Gloria DeCarlo Massaro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
Vitamin
medicine.medical_specialty Pregnancy Lung business.industry Retinol Serum retinol Physiology General Medicine medicine.disease chemistry.chemical_compound Endocrinology medicine.anatomical_structure Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects chemistry beta-Carotene Internal medicine medicine business Lung function |
| Zdroj: | New England Journal of Medicine. 362:1829-1831 |
| ISSN: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| DOI: | 10.1056/nejme1002366 |
| Popis: | In this issue of the Journal, Checkley et al. report that, in a region with endemic vitamin A (retinol) deficiency, children whose mothers had received vitamin A supplementation before, during, and for 6 months after pregnancy had better lung function when they were tested at 9 to 11 years of age than children whose mothers had received beta carotene supplementation or placebo.1 The extent of the increased lung function was linearly related to the mother's postpartum serum retinol concentration. Because of a local ordinance, all children received supplemental vitamin A beginning at 6 months of age.1 Thus, the period during . . . |
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