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Failure of massive single oral dose of vitamin A to prevent deficiency

Preschool children maintained on low and moderate carotene diets were given a single oral dose of 50,000 μg vitamin A palmitate. On the low carotene diet, xerosis was observed in 8 weeks' time in the control group of children, and in 10 weeks' time in the children given the load of vitamin...

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Main Authors: Pereira, Sheila M., Begum, Almas
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1971
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1647752/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5565465
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