Low plasma retinol concentrations increase the risk of developing bronchopulmonary dysplasia and long-term respiratory disability in very-low-birth-weight infants.

Background: The effect of inadequate vitamin A during the neonatal period on lung status is still unknown.

Objective: We tested the hypothesis that low plasma retinol concentrations during the first month of life are independently associated with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and long-term respiratory morbidity at 6 mo gestationally corrected age (ie, the age the infant would be had the pregnancy gone to term).

Design: Respiratory outcome information was obtained to 6 mo corrected age for a historical cohort of very-low-birth-weight neonates (<1250 g) who were admitted to intensive care over a 7-y period.

Iron deficiency is unacceptably high in refugee children from Burma.

Iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) in refugees is reported to be among the major medical problems worldwide. Because food rations are typically inadequate in iron, long-term reliance is a key predictor of anemia among displaced people. Comprehensive nutritional assessments of refugee children from Burma have not previously been completed.

The association between vitamin C and vitamin E supplement use before hematopoietic stem cell transplant and outcomes to two years.

Objective: To examine the prevalence of supplement use in persons before receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) and the association of select supplements with outcomes.

Design: This observational cohort study included a questionnaire on supplement use before HSCT. Nonrelapse mortality, recurrence/relapse, and mortality or relapse (the inverse of disease-free survival) were followed to two years.