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Vitamin A deficiency
Vitamin A deficiency: Introduction
Vitamin A deficiency: Dietary deficiency of vitamin A. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Vitamin A deficiency is available below.
Symptoms of Vitamin A deficiency
- Eye symptoms
- Reduced night vision
- Night blindness
- Dry eyes
- Eye inflammation
- more symptoms...»
See full list of 11 symptoms of Vitamin A deficiency
Home Diagnostic Testing
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Vitamin A deficiency: Complications
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Medical Textbooks Online about Vitamin A deficiency
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Wrongly Diagnosed with Vitamin A deficiency?
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- Failure to diagnose Vitamin A deficiency
- Hidden causes of Vitamin A deficiency (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
- Undiagnosed: Vitamin A deficiency
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Vitamin A deficiency: Undiagnosed Conditions
Commonly undiagnosed diseases in related medical categories:
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Misdiagnosis and Vitamin A deficiency
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Vitamin A deficiency: Research Doctors & Specialists
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Causes of Vitamin A deficiency
- Malabsorption
- Inadequate diet
- Malnutrition
- Certain lipid-lowering medications
- more causes...»
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More information about causes of Vitamin A deficiency:
- Underlying causes of Vitamin A deficiency
- Vitamin A deficiency as a complication caused by other conditions
- Vitamin A deficiency as a symptom
Treatments for Vitamin A deficiency
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News Archives for Vitamin A deficiency
Medical news articles related to Vitamin A deficiency include:
- Synthetic Vitamin A-Like Molecule Blocks Early MS
- Iodine in Prenatal Vitamins Varies Widely
- B Vitamins Might Lower Stroke Risk
- Vitamins Do Older Women Little Good
- Vitamin Holds Promise for Alzheimer's Disease
- Vitamin B No Help for Alzheimer's
- Health Tip: Get Needed Vitamins and Minerals
- more health news...»
Source: HealthDay News
Evidence Based Medicine Research for Vitamin A deficiency
Medical research articles related to Vitamin A deficiency include:
- Vitamin A for preventing acute lower respiratory tract infections in children up to seven years of age
- American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, The Obesity Society, and American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery medical guidelines for clinical practice for the perioperative nutritional, metabolic, and nonsurgical support of the bariatric
- Effect of parental formal education on risk of child stunting in Indonesia and Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study.
- Vitamin A supplementation for cystic fibrosis
- A supplementation in iodine-deficient African children decreases thyrotropin stimulation of the thyroid and reduces the goiter rate.
- Bariatric surgery
- Randomized controlled safety and efficacy trial of 2 vitamin A supplementation schedules in Tanzanian infants.
- more research...»
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Clinical Trials for Vitamin A deficiency
The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.
Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Vitamin A deficiency include:
- Vitamin A to Reduce HIV in Vaginal Secretions and Prevent Viral Transmission - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Vitamin A
- Retinol Equivalence of Plant Carotenoids in Children - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
- Community Trial of Newborn Vitamin A Supplementation to Reduce Infant Mortality in Rural Bangladesh - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - vitamin A supplementation (50,000 IU)
- Single-Dose Postpartum Vitamin A Supplementation of Mothers and Neonates - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Vitamin A (retinyl palmitate)
- Impact of Maternal Vitamin A or Beta-Carotene Supplementation on Maternal and Infant Mortality in Bangladesh - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Vitamin A or Beta-Carotene Supplements
- more trials...»
See full list of 6 Clinical Trials for Vitamin A deficiency
Prevention of Vitamin A deficiency
Prevention information for Vitamin A deficiency has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Vitamin A deficiency.
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Statistics for Vitamin A deficiency
- Medical statistics for Vitamin A deficiency
- Prevalence and incidence statistics for Vitamin A deficiency
- Death and Mortality statistics for Vitamin A deficiency
- Society statistics for Vitamin A deficiency
Vitamin A deficiency: Broader Related Topics
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Definitions of Vitamin A deficiency:
Condition due to a deficiency of vitamin A. - (Source - Diseases Database)
Vitamin A deficiency is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Vitamin A deficiency, or a subtype of Vitamin A deficiency,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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- Misdiagnosis of Underlying Causes of Vitamin A deficiency
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- External links relating to Vitamin A deficiency
- Vitamin A deficiency (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Vitamin B deficiencies (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Vitamin C deficiency (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Vitamin D deficiency (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Vitamin E deficiency (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
- Vitamin K deficiency (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
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