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Vitamin A Supplementation With Routine Childhood Vaccines and Mortality and Morbidity

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Bandim Health Project

Status and phase

Unknown
Phase 4

Conditions

Mortality
Morbidity

Treatments

Drug: Vitamin A

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00168623
91096-2dos03
91096-03

Details and patient eligibility

About

Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) is important for the immune system and may interact with different childhood vaccinations. We have hypothesized that the improved survival after VAS may depend on vitamin A amplifying the non-specific immune modulation induced by vaccinations.

In the present study we used information collected in connection with a national vitamin A campaign in Guinea-Bissau during which different doses of VAS was provided together with missing doses of DTP, OPV, and measles vaccines. We aimed to study the potential interactions between VAS and vaccine type.

Full description

Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) acts as an adjuvant to vaccines, and VAS has been shown to enhance both cellular and humoral immune responses in animals and in humans. Routine childhood vaccinations have recently been shown to have important non-targeted effects on mortality, i.e. effects that cannot be explained merely by the prevention of the targeted disease. We have hypothesized that the improved survival after VAS may depend not only on the prevention of vitamin A deficiency, but also on vitamin A amplifying the non-specific immune modulation induced by routine vaccinations.

In the present study we used information collected in connection with a national vitamin A campaign in Guinea-Bissau during which different doses of VAS was provided together with missing doses of DTP, OPV, and measles vaccines. We aimed to study the potential interactions between VAS and vaccine type.

Sex

All

Ages

6 months to 5 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:Between 6 months and 5 years and thus eligible for vitamin A and missing vaccines during national immunisation days -

Exclusion Criteria: Overt signs of vitamin A deficiency

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

Trial contacts and locations

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