ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–February 7, 2014. School-age children with vitamin A deficiencies are more likely to get gastrointestinal and respiratory illnesses, a new study shows.
Researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Michigan State University followed nearly 2,800 children, ages 5-12, in Bogota, Colombia, over the course of a year. They found that the less vitamin A (retinol) in the children’s blood, the more incidence of diarrhea with vomiting and cough with fever.
