Systematic Reviews on Vitamins

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of vitamins.
Reviewed January 2012

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Title:   Vitamin D supplementation for cystic fibrosis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cystic fibrosis with pancreatic insufficiency can cause vitamins, such as vitamin D, to be inadequately absorbed leading to vitamin deficiencies. Lack of vitamin D (vitamin D deficiency) can cause specific problems such as bone deformity and bone fractu...
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Vitamin A supplementation to prevent mortality and short- and long-term morbidity in very low birthweight infants
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Vitamin A is a group of fat-soluble compounds used by the body for regulation and promotion of growth and differentiation of many cells, including cells in the retina of the eye and the cells that line the lung. Preterm infants have low vitamin A levels...
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Vitamin C for preventing and treating tetanus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Tetanus is a disease caused by tetanus toxin, which is produced by the bacterium Clostridium tetani. This bacterium typically infects penetrating wounds contaminated by foreign material such as soil. In developing countries, poor hygiene after childbirt...
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Vitamin C for preventing and treating pneumonia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs caused by bacteria, viruses or other infectious agents. Its clinical diagnosis is sometimes difficult. Pneumonia is more common in young children and in the aged. In low-income countries it causes two million death...
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   Folic acid for fragile X syndrome
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with fragile X syndrome (or FXS) have intellectual limitations that can range from mild to severe. Fragile X syndrome is considered the most common form of inherited intellectual disability and it has been estimated that it affects approximately ...
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   Vitamin A for treating measles in children
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Measles is caused by a virus and possible complications include pneumonia. Measles is a major cause of death in children in low-income countries and is particularly dangerous in children with vitamin A deficiency. Eight studies involving 2574 participan...
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Vitamin K prior to preterm birth for preventing neonatal periventricular haemorrhage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Vitamin K given to women before a very preterm birth does not decrease the risk of bleeding in the brain and associated neurological injury in babies born very preterm. Babies born very early (before 34 weeks) are at risk of bleeding in the brain (periv...
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Systematic Reviews on Vitamin D
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of Vitamin D in the diet.
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Vitamin D supplementation for prevention of mortality in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Numerous observational studies and randomised trials have observed that optimal vitamin D status has a positive effect on our health and may reduce cancers and cardiovascular diseases. However, a number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on vitamin...
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Routine vitamin A supplementation for the prevention of blindness due to measles infection in children
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Annually 500,000 children become blind worldwide, 75% of them living in low-income countries. The major causes of blindness in children vary widely from region to region and are related to the standard of living of the community. Corneal scarring from m...
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Carnitine supplementation for preterm infants with recurrent apnoea
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   More research is needed before the use of carnitine for the treatment of apnoea of prematurity can be recommended in clinical practice. Apnea of prematurity is a common problem in preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care setting (NICU). Recurrent ...
Date:   Dec 2010
Title:   Oral zinc for treating diarrhoea in children
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In developing countries, millions of children suffer from severe diarrhoea every year. This is due to infection and malnutrition, and many die from dehydration due to the diarrhoea. Giving fluids by mouth (using an oral rehydration solution) has been sh...
Date:   Dec 2010
Title:   Vitamin A supplementation for preventing morbidity and mortality in children from 6 months to 5 years of age
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a major public health problem in low and middle income countries affecting 190 million children under 5 years of age. VAD pre-disposes children to increased risk of a range of problems, including respiratory diseases, diarr...
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Vitamin K supplementation for cystic fibrosis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cystic fibrosis is an inherited condition causing disease most noticeably in the lungs, digestive tract and pancreas. People with cystic fibrosis often have pancreatic insufficiency which may be linked to deficiencies of fat-soluble vitamins like vitami...
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Retinoids for preventing the progression of cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cervix cancer is preceded by cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). Surgery for CIN is effective at reducing the risk of subsequent invasive carcinoma. An effective chemo-preventive agent might avoid the need for surgery and reduce the cost and morbi...
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy for maternal and newborn outcomes
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin derived from the retinoids retinal and retinoic acid, found in liver, kidney, eggs, and dairy produce. Carotenoids are converted to vitamin A in the liver, where vitamin A is stored; beta-carotene is found in dark or y...
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Vitamin A supplementation for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV is the primary way that children become infected with HIV. More than 1000 children worldwide are infected in this way every day. Researchers theorized that giving vitamin A supplements to HIV-infected pregnant ...
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Vitamin A supplementation for postpartum women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   While the amount of vitamin A in well-nourished mothers' breast milk is sufficient to meet the needs of their infants, this may not be the case for mothers from populations with vitamin A deficiency. Therefore, trials have tested whether giving mothers...
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Effects and safety of periconceptional folate supplementation for preventing birth defects
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Folic acid is a synthetic form of folate used in supplements and fortified foods (like wheat and maize flour) to reduce the occurrence of neural tube defects (NTDs). These include spina bifida (or cleft spine), where there is an opening in one or more o...
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Vitamin A for non-measles pneumonia in children
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Acute respiratory infections, mostly in the form of pneumonia, are the leading cause of death in children under five years of age living in low-income countries. Vitamin A supplementation has been found to reduce mortality and the severity of respirator...
Date:   Aug 2010

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