Vitamin A study
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Published by Richard Semba, MD, Dana Center, et al., in the June 25 Lancet finds that among 338 HIV-positive mothers in Malawi who were divided into quartiles of vitamin A serum concentrations less than .70 mcmol/L, .70-1.05 mcmol/L, 1.05-1.40 mcmol/L, and greater than or equal to 1.40 mcmol/L, infant transmission was 32.4%, 26.2%, 16%, and 7%, respectively. Semba et al. concluded that "improving vitamin A during pregnancy may lower vertical transmission rates of HIV" and "nutritional intervention may be a practical, inexpensive and widely applicable option" to reducing HIV incidence in infants