Vitamin A in Breastmilk and HIV Infection in West Africa
| Autor: | François Dabis, Marie-Josée Thomas, Philippe Van de Perre, Liliane Dubourg, Philippe Msellati, Crépin Montcho, Katia Castetbon, Olivier Manigart |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Vitamin
Pregnancy medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Transmission (medicine) Obstetrics Serum retinol Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) virus diseases medicine.disease medicine.disease_cause West africa chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry parasitic diseases Immunology Medicine Observational study business Maternal vitamin |
| Zdroj: | Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ISBN: 9781461351320 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-1-4615-0559-4_30 |
| Popis: | An association between impaired maternal vitamin A status during pregnancy and increased risk of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV has been documented in observational studies.1 However vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy has not shown any efficacy in reducing the overall MTCT risk.2,3 WHO recommends vitamin A supplementation in all women within the first six weeks after delivery, complementary to the child supplementation4. Limited information is available on vitamin A in breastmilk of West-African women and its association with the risk of MTCT. We evaluated such a relationship in Cote d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso. A secondary objective was to assess the association between milk and maternal serum retinol levels at day 45 post-partum. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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