Impact of vitamin A with zinc supplementation on malaria morbidity in Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among young children and is estimated to cause at least 1 million deaths each year especially among pregnant women and young children under the age of five years. Vitamin A supplementation is known to reduce morbidity and mortality in young children. Zinc is required for growth and immunity and we sought to replicate the study by Zeba et al. which showed 30% lower cases of clinical malaria in children on a combination of zinc and a large dose of vitamin A compared with children on vitamin A alone based on the hypothesis that combined vitamin A and zinc reduced symptomatic malaria compared to vitamin A alone.

Objectives

The primary objective was to determine the effect of vitamin A alone vs. vitamin A and zinc s

SUBMITTER: Owusu-Agyei S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3850154 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature