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| Title |
Impact of vitamin A with zinc supplementation on malaria morbidity in Ghana
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Nutrition Journal, September 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1475-2891-12-131 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Seth Owusu-Agyei, Sam Newton, Emmanuel Mahama, Lawrence Gyabaa Febir, Martha Ali, Kwame Adjei, Kofi Tchum, Latifa Alhassan, Thabisile Moleah, Sherry A Tanumihardjo |
| Abstract |
Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among young children and is estimated to cause at least 1 million deaths each year especially among pregnant women and young children under the age of five years. Vitamin A supplementation is known to reduce morbidity and mortality in young children. Zinc is required for growth and immunity and we sought to replicate the study by Zeba et al. which showed 30% lower cases of clinical malaria in children on a combination of zinc and a large dose of vitamin A compared with children on vitamin A alone based on the hypothesis that combined vitamin A and zinc reduced symptomatic malaria compared to vitamin A alone. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 3 | 38% |
| Kenya | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| Australia | 1 | 13% |
| Ghana | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 1 | 13% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 63% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 25% |
| Scientists | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 246 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 240 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 32 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 32 | 13% |
| Researcher | 28 | 11% |
| Other | 22 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 9% |
| Other | 50 | 20% |
| Unknown | 61 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 64 | 26% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 29 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 17 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 16 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 3% |
| Other | 42 | 17% |
| Unknown | 71 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 December 2016.
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