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| Title |
Early BCG vaccine to low-birth-weight infants and the effects on growth in the first year of life: a randomised controlled trial
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| Published in |
BMC Pediatrics, September 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12887-015-0452-2 |
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| Authors |
Sofie Biering-Sørensen, Andreas Andersen, Henrik Ravn, Ivan Monterio, Peter Aaby, Christine Stabell Benn |
| Abstract |
Randomised trials have shown that early Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine reduces overall neonatal and infant mortality. However, no study has examined how BCG affects growth. We investigated the effect on infant growth of early BCG vaccine given to low-birth-weight (LBW) infants. Two-thousand three hundred forty-three LBW infants were randomly allocated 1:1 to "early BCG" (intervention group) or "late BCG" (current practice). Furthermore, a subgroup (N = 1717) were included in a two-by-two randomised trial in which they were additionally randomised 1:1 to vitamin A supplementation (VAS) or placebo. Anthropometric measurements were obtained 2, 6, and 12 months after enrolment. Overall there was no effect of early BCG on growth in the first year of life. The effect of early BCG on weight and mid-upper-arm circumference at 2 months tended to be beneficial among girls but not among boys (interaction between "early BCG" and sex: weight p = 0.03 and MUAC p = 0.04). This beneficial effect among girls was particularly seen among the largest infants weighing 2.0 kg or more at inclusion. Though BCG vaccination is not recommended to be given to LBW infants at birth in Guinea-Bissau, early BCG had no negative effect on infant growth and may have had a beneficial effect for girls. ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT00146302) . |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 73 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 13 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 8% |
| Lecturer | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 11 | 15% |
| Unknown | 26 | 36% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 25% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 12% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 5 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 12% |
| Unknown | 27 | 37% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 03 January 2024.
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#7,871,615
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Outputs from BMC Pediatrics
#1,413
of 3,485 outputs
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#87,494
of 287,006 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pediatrics
#23
of 68 outputs
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