oral vitamin e supplementation

Administration of 25 IU dl-alpha-tocopherol by gavage for the first 6 weeks of life.

• Types

  treatment

• Aliases

  vitamin E supplementation, dl-alpha-tocopherol

• Contributors
  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extractionB (s683577b42) reviewAK (4715169a40) review

• Oral vitamin E supplementation for the prevention of anemia in premature infants: a controlled trial.

  24 citations

• Oral vitamin E supplementation raised serum vitamin E levels in premature infants by day 3 and kept them higher for the rest of the 6-week treatment period.
• At 6 weeks of age, oral vitamin E supplementation did not improve hemoglobin concentration relative to control in the anemia of prematurity setting.
• No evidence supports administering oral vitamin E to premature infants to prevent anemia of prematurity.

• No direct concept-to-concept edges are published yet.

• premature infants

  population1 shared papers
• serum vitamin e levels

  biomarker, measurement1 shared papers
• hemoglobin concentration

  outcome measure1 shared papers
• randomized controlled blinded trial

  study design1 shared papers
• anemia of prematurity

  condition1 shared papers