Vitamin A And Reduced Risk Of Mother-To-Child Transmission Of HIV Infection
Home of Kyle J. Norton for The Better of Living & Living Health Vitamin A also known as Vitamin A Retinol, is a yellow, fat-soluble substance, and essential for growth and life and producing pigments in the eye's retina for scotopic vision (low-light vision). The vital vitamin come from 2 types of foods
1. Retinol, one of the animal forms of vitamin A, is a yellow, fat-soluble substance, a diterpenoid and an alcohol converted to vitamin A and and the retinyl ester derivative of the alcohol stored mostly in liver, when eating animal food sources, such as liver and egg yolk. When converted to retinoic acid, vitamin A is essential for skin health, teeth remineralization, bone growth.and the process of cell differentiation, hence, the growth and development of embryos Retinoic acid via the retinoic acid receptor.
2. Carotenes, including alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, gamma-carotene, and
xanthophyl beta- cryptoxanthin, possess the enzyme required to convert these compounds to retinal. Carotenes are the group of orange pigments phytochemical belonging to the class of
Carotenoids (tetraterpenoids), found abundantly in carrots, pumpkins, maize,
tangerine, orange, in dark, leafy greens and red, orange and yellow fruits and vegetables, etc.
and contained many health benefits(1)
Vitamin A and Reduced risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection
Some researchers suggested that Vitamin A supplementation may help to reduce risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection, but scientists at the at the University of Cape Town, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, showed that antenatal or postpartum vitamin A supplementation probably has little or no effect on mother-to-child transmission of HIV. According to the GRADE classification, the quality of this evidence is moderate; implying that the true effect of vitamin A supplementation on the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV is likely to be close to the findings of this review, but that there is also a possibility that it is substantially different(2).
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(1) http://medicaladvisorjournals.blogspot.ca/2012/02/phytochemicals-in-foods-11-health_22.html
(2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21249656
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