{"id":571339,"date":"2010-05-19T23:01:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T03:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/vitamin-a-supplementation-may-improve-lung-function-in-newborns\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T23:01:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T03:01:43","slug":"vitamin-a-supplementation-may-improve-lung-function-in%c2%a0newborns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/571339","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin A Supplementation May Improve Lung Function In\u00a0Newborns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Pills_1961_19777202_0_0_7056837_300.jpg\" alt=\"Vitamin A supplementation may improve lung function in newborns\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Expectant women who take vitamin A supplements before and during pregnancy have a greater chance of giving birth to a child with superior lung function, according to a new Johns Hopkins study.<\/p>\n<p>For the research, a team of investigators analyzed the lung function of a group of children whose mothers had been assigned to receive vitamin A supplements, beta-carotene tablets or a placebo both before and during their pregnancy. <\/p>\n<p>They discovered that women who took vitamin A supplements gave birth to children who had greater forced expiratory volume at one second (FEV1) and a greater forced vital capacity (FVC), two important measures of lung function. On average, the offspring of participants in the vitamin A group improved their lung function by 3 percent compared to the other respondents&#8217; children. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;This benefit was limited to children whose mothers received vitamin A and not to those whose mothers received beta-carotene,&quot; said the authors of the study. &quot;Early interventions with vitamin A in communities where undernutrition is highly prevalent may have long-lasting consequences in lung health.&quot;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19777202-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19777202\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expectant women who take vitamin A supplements before and during pregnancy have a greater chance of giving birth to a child with superior lung function, according to a new Johns Hopkins study. For the research, a team of investigators analyzed the lung function of a group of children whose mothers had been assigned to receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}