Vitamin A status of lactating women in southern Ethiopia

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" Vitamin A status of lactating women in southern Ethiopia "
Meredith Leah Reilly B. Stoecker

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	54070
Doc. No	:	TL24024
Call number	:	‭1440384‬
Main Entry	:	Meredith Leah Reilly
Title & Author	:	Vitamin A status of lactating women in southern Ethiopia\ Meredith Leah Reilly
College	:	Oklahoma State University
Date	:	2006
Degree	:	M.S.
student score	:	2006
Page No	:	129
Abstract	:	Scope and method of study. The purpose of this study was to assess the vitamin A status of lactating women in southern Ethiopia. A total of 108 women participated in this cross-sectional investigation. Anthropometric measurements, blood samples, breast milk, dietary habits, socioeconomic data, and dark adaptation were analyzed. Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated for all appropriate variables. Significance was set at p Findings and conclusions. The mean serum retinol level in participants as determined by HPLC and fluorometry was 1.49 ± 0.04 and 1.68 ± 0.04 μmol/L, respectively. Results from analysis of serum retinol concentrations by HPLC and fluorometry were highly correlated (r = 0.63, p < 0.0001). Forty one percent of the participants had low levels of breast milk vitamin A. Pupillary threshold scores and serum retinol concentrations tended to be related, as did pupillary threshold scores and breast milk vitamin A.
Subject	:	Health and environmental sciences; Nutrition; Public health; 0570:Nutrition; 0573:Public health
Added Entry	:	B. Stoecker
Added Entry	:	Oklahoma State University