Vitamin K is necessary for our bodies to activate certain molecules (also known asclotting factors) that help the blood to clot. The blood clotting factors are there in normal numbers at birth, but not activated fully due to low levels of Vitamin K. If we do not have enough Vitamin K, ...
However, around the time of birth there was a sudden increase in all enzyme activities asso- ciated with the vitamin K-dependent carboxylation system. In 2-d neonatal rats these activities dropped to levels that were measured in fetal livers whereupon the activities had risen to adult levels ...
Currently, vitamin K administration after birth is largely restricted to births in health facilities; no information is available on the public health significance of vitamin K deficiency-related bleeding in LMICs or population-based programmes for prevention. Neonatal vitamin A supplementation A Cochrane...
We present updated, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines from the Indian Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ISPN) for the management of urinary tract infection (UTI) and primary vesicoureteric reflux (VUR) in children. These guidelines conform to international standards; Institute of Medicine and ...
We present evidence for a possible role of Vitamin D (VitD) deficiency in unregulated cytokine production and inflammation leading to complications in COVI
We tested the association of LCT genotype with milk consumption (for validation) and with cardio-metabolic traits (for a possible causal association) in a meta-analysis of the data from three large-scale population-based studies (1958 British Birth Cohort, Health and Retirement study, and UK Bio...
Risk of adverse birth outcomes after maternal varenicline use: a population-based observational study in Denmark and Sweden. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2020;29(1):94-102. doi:10.1002/pds.4894PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 114. Tran DT, Preen DB, Einarsdottir K, et al. Use ...
Vitamin A Supplementation in Very Low Birth Weight Neonates: Rationale and Evidencedoi:10.1542/peds.104.6.1369Jayant Shenai
They were using the tenets of “evidence based medicine”, which puts meta-analyses of RCTs as the strongest evidence. That approach may or may not be appropriate for pharmaceutical drugs [Biesalski et al., 2011; Hickey and Roberts, 2011], but is not appropriate for vitamin D, which ...
Smith, C. (2010). Ginger reduces severity of nausea in early pregnancy compared with vitamin B6, and the two treatments are similarly effective for reducing number of vomiting episodes. Evidence-Based Nursing, 13(2): 40-41. Sönmez, Y. (2007). Doğum öncesi bakım hizmetleri. Sü...