Vitamin A and Reduced Culture-Proven Sepsis

• The effect of vitamin supplementation on neurodevelopmental and clinical outcomes in very low birth weight and very preterm infants: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2025-07-09
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 538
  • PloS one 20(7)
  • • Anja Bronnert
    • Peter M Bloomfield
    • Lilia Delgado Páramo
    • Luling Lin
    • Frank H Bloomfield
    • Barbara E Cormack

  • PubMed: 40632831
  • DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0327628

  5 Insights on

  • Reduced Culture-Proven Sepsis

  • High evidence
  • Infants

  Culture-proven sepsis was decreased by vitamin A (0.88 [0.77-0.99])

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes