THE EFFICACY OF VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION FOR CHILDREN UNDER 5 TO IMPROVE THE INCIDENCE OF ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTION IN AN LAO, HAI PHONG IN 2017

Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Yến1,, Vũ Thị Thủy1, Đinh Văn Thức2
1 Haiphong Children's Hospital
2 Haiphong University of Medicine and Pharmacy

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Objective. The study was carried out to evaluate the efficacy of 500 IU vitamin D supplementation daily for children under 5 to improve the the incidence of acute respiratory infection in An Lao, Hai Phong in 2017 during one year. Subjects and Methods. Subjects included 164 under 5 children divided into 2 groups: intervention and control group. Method was a community intervention controlled trial, compared before and after the entervention. Results and conclusions. After the intervention, mean vitamin D of intervention group increased 5.54 ng/ml higher than that of control group 1.38 ng/ml, mean vitamin D difference between group was 4.16 ng/ml. Vitamin D supplementation reduced 37.4% in the intervention group and 14.7% in the control group, and incidence difference between 2 groups was 22,7%.

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