نتایج جستجو برای: multivitamins
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IMPORTANCE Micronutrient deficiencies occur early in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and supplementation with micronutrients may be beneficial; however, its effectiveness has not been investigated early in HIV disease among adults who are antiretroviral therapy (ART) naive. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether long-term micronutrient supplementation is effective and safe in delaying...
BACKGROUND Anemia is a frequent complication among HIV-infected persons and is associated with faster disease progression and mortality. OBJECTIVE We examined the effect of multivitamin supplementation on hemoglobin concentrations and the risk of anemia among HIV-infected pregnant women and their children. DESIGN HIV-1-infected pregnant women (n = 1078) from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were en...
The group descriptor "multivitamin" doesn't guarantee that all vitamins are included in the product or that they are present in proportion to nutritional requirements. In fact the great majority of multivitamin preparations do not contain all the 13 established vitamins. We have reviewed the stated composition of all vitamin products registered with the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administrati...
Complementary medicine use is becoming increasingly popular with multivitamins being the most commonly used vitamin supplement. Although adequate vitamin and nutrient concentrations are necessary for optimal health and cognitive functioning, there is no scientific consensus as to whether multivitamin use prevents cognitive decline or improves mental functioning. The aim of the present study was...
BACKGROUND The pattern of weight gain during pregnancy among HIV-infected women is largely unknown. Multivitamin supplementation was shown to be effective in preventing adverse pregnancy outcomes among HIV-positive women. These protective effects could be mediated in part by an improvement in the pattern of gestational weight gain. OBJECTIVE We examined the effects of multivitamin and vitamin...
Multivitamin supplementation has been shown to reduce the risk of low birthweight. This effect could be mediated through gestational weight gain. However, the effect of multivitamin supplementation on weight gain during pregnancy has not been fully studied. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of multivitamins on pregnancy weight gain. We enrolled 8468 HIV-negative women from ...
To the Editor: Normal thyroid function in fetuses and breast-fed infants, which is dependent on sufficient maternal dietary intake of iodine, is crucial for normal neurocognitive development.1 Children of mothers with severe iodine deficiency may have cretinism. Iodine deficiency affects more than 2.2 billion persons (38% of the world’s population) and is the leading cause of preventable mental...
Folic Acid-Related Dietary Preferences and Health Interests of Latino Women Living in North Carolina
Objectives: Women of childbearing age are strongly encouraged to take a daily multivitamin containing folic acid in order to decrease their risk of having a pregnancy affected by a neural tube defect (NTD). While multivitamins offer an effective means for obtaining adequate amounts of folic acid, there are dietary options (e.g., fortified grain products) for obtaining this important vitamin. In...
(allergy promoting), at this time the findings of this study are associational and not causal. There are numerous confounding factors that may have resulted in the observed associations. The authors proposed that there may have been cultural biases in diagnosis. It is also unusual that this association only held for vitamin use at 3 and 6 months of age but not at 3 years of age. It was noted th...
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