Vitamin A and Improved Visual Acuity

• Vitamin A and fish oils for preventing the progression of retinitis pigmentosa.

  • 2020-06-23
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 944
  • The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2022(1)
  • • Stephen G Schwartz
    • Xue Wang
    • Pamela Chavis
    • Ajay E Kuriyan
    • Samuel A Abariga

  • PubMed: 32573764
  • DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd008428.pub3

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Visual Acuity

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  In the fourth trial (572 participants), which evaluated (vitamin A + vitamin E trace) compared with (vitamin A trace + vitamin E trace), decline in ETDRS visual acuity was 1.1 versus 0.9 letters per year, respectively.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No