Vitamin A Deficiency in Kwashiorkor
Open Access
- 1 September 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 19 (3) , 182-186
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/19.3.182
Abstract
The incidence of ocular manifestations of vitamin A deficiency in 175 children with kwashiorkor and the serum vitamin A levels associated with the ocular signs in 136 children with protein-calorie malnutrition are recorded. Children with keratomalacia and Bitot spots were found to have low serum vitamin A levels.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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