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Vitamin A deficiency

Vitamin A deficiency: Introduction

Vitamin A deficiency: Dietary deficiency of vitamin A. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Vitamin A deficiency is available below.

Symptoms of Vitamin A deficiency

• Eye symptoms
  • Reduced night vision
  • Night blindness
  • Dry eyes
  • Eye inflammation
• more symptoms...»

See full list of 11 symptoms of Vitamin A deficiency

Treatments for Vitamin A deficiency

• Vitamin A
• Diet rich in Vitamin A - liver, beef, chicken, eggs, whole milk, carrots, sweet potato
• Vitamin A supplementation
• more treatments...»

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Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Vitamin A deficiency:

• Vision & Eye Health: Home Testing:
  • Home Eye Tests
  • Home Vision Tests
• more...»

Wrongly Diagnosed with Vitamin A deficiency?

• Misdiagnosis of Vitamin A deficiency
• Failure to diagnose Vitamin A deficiency
• Hidden causes of Vitamin A deficiency (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Undiagnosed: Vitamin A deficiency

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Vitamin A deficiency: Deaths

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Vitamin A deficiency: Complications

Review possible medical complications related to Vitamin A deficiency:

• Night blindness
• Blindness
• Respiratory infections
• Urinary infections
• more complications...»

Causes of Vitamin A deficiency

• Malabsorption
• Inadequate diet
• Malnutrition
• Certain lipid-lowering medications
• more causes...»

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More information about causes of Vitamin A deficiency:

• Underlying causes of Vitamin A deficiency
• Vitamin A deficiency as a complication caused by other conditions
• Vitamin A deficiency as a symptom

Disease Topics Related To Vitamin A deficiency

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Vitamin A deficiency:

• Retinoic acid
• Retinol
• Beta carotene
• Aquasol A
• Palmitate-A
• Oleovitamin A
• Carotenoids
• more related diseases...»

Vitamin A deficiency: Undiagnosed Conditions

Commonly undiagnosed diseases in related medical categories:

• Vision & Eye: serious diseases often undiagnosed:
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  • Age-Related Macular Degeneration -- Undiagnosed
  • Cataract -- Undiagnosed
  • Diabetic Retinopathy -- Undiagnosed
  • more ...»
• more undiagnosed conditions...»

Misdiagnosis and Vitamin A deficiency

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Vitamin A deficiency: Research Doctors & Specialists

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Evidence Based Medicine Research for Vitamin A deficiency

Medical research articles related to Vitamin A deficiency include:

• Effect of parental formal education on risk of child stunting in Indonesia and Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study.
• Vitamin A supplementation for cystic fibrosis
• American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, The Obesity Society, and American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery medical guidelines for clinical practice for the perioperative nutritional, metabolic, and nonsurgical support of the bariatric
• Vitamin A for preventing acute lower respiratory tract infections in children up to seven years of age
• A supplementation in iodine-deficient African children decreases thyrotropin stimulation of the thyroid and reduces the goiter rate.
• more research...»

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Research about Vitamin A deficiency

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Clinical Trials for Vitamin A deficiency

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Vitamin A deficiency include:

• Vitamin A to Reduce HIV in Vaginal Secretions and Prevent Viral Transmission - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Vitamin A
• Retinol Equivalence of Plant Carotenoids in Children - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Community Trial of Newborn Vitamin A Supplementation to Reduce Infant Mortality in Rural Bangladesh - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - vitamin A supplementation (50,000 IU)
• Single-Dose Postpartum Vitamin A Supplementation of Mothers and Neonates - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Vitamin A (retinyl palmitate)
• Impact of Maternal Vitamin A or Beta-Carotene Supplementation on Maternal and Infant Mortality in Bangladesh - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - Vitamin A or Beta-Carotene Supplements
• more trials...»

See full list of 6 Clinical Trials for Vitamin A deficiency

Prevention of Vitamin A deficiency

Prevention information for Vitamin A deficiency has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Vitamin A deficiency.

• Vitamin A
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Statistics for Vitamin A deficiency

• Medical statistics for Vitamin A deficiency
• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Vitamin A deficiency
• Death and Mortality statistics for Vitamin A deficiency
• Society statistics for Vitamin A deficiency

Vitamin A deficiency: Broader Related Topics

• Vitamin deficiency
• Eye conditions
• more types...»

Types of Vitamin A deficiency

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Definitions of Vitamin A deficiency:

Condition due to a deficiency of vitamin A. - (Source - Diseases Database)

Vitamin A deficiency is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Vitamin A deficiency, or a subtype of Vitamin A deficiency, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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