Vitamin A and Reduced Vitamin A Deficiency

• Effects of vitamin and multiple micronutrient supplementation for pregnant and/or lactating women on maternal and infant nutritional status in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2025-12
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) 16(12)
  • • Sachin Shinde
    • Cara A Yelverton
    • Mashavu Yussuf
    • Lina Nurhussien
    • Dongqing Wang
    • Wafaie W Fawzi

  • PubMed: 40752545
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.advnut.2025.100487

  7 Insights on

  • Reduced Vitamin A Deficiency

  • High evidence
  • Pregnant Women

  reduced deficiency at thresholds ≤0.7 μmol/L (OR 0.55; 95% CI 0.43, 0.71; P<0.001)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  single high-dose regimens