Vitamin A WisdomCard™

Our Guides and Physician Review team have organized the Top 10 Health Resources on Vitamin A and compiled helpful research notes below.

Research Notes on Vitamin A

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What is Vitamin A?

• MedlinePlus: Vitamin A (Retinol)
• SupplementNews.org: Vitamin A
• Wikipedia: Vitamin A

What Are The Uses for Vitamin A?

• World's Healthiest Foods: Vitamin A
• LifeClinic: The Benefits of Vitamin A
• iVillage: Healthy Skin with Vitamin A

What Are The Side Effects, Interactions and Precautions for Vitamin A?

• Cornell University: Vitamin A Toxicity
• Ask the Dietitian: Vitamin A & Carotenes
• LifeClinic: Too Much Vitamin A May Put Some Women at Risk for Hip Fractures
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases: Vitamin A and Bone Health
• eMedicine: Vitamin A Toxicity

Wisdom, Personal Experiences and Blogs about Vitamin A

• Balancing Life: Taking Up Vitamin A
• Juiceboyguy: Important Facts about Vitamin A
• WebMD Blog, Eye On Vision: Vitamin A: Malnourished in the USA
• EyeOrbit: Vitamin A Deficiency
• Nutrient Rich Blog: More Bad News for Vitamin E, Beta-Carotene, and Vitamin A
• Dana's View: High Dose Vitamin A Protocol For Measles Virus
• Sandwalk: Strolling With a Skeptical Biochemist: Vitamin A (retinol)

Clinical Trials for Vitamin A

• New York's Food and Life Sciences Bulletin: Vegetables as a Major Vitamin A Source in Our Diet
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Topical Vitamin A Versus Vehicle Cream in the Treatment of Aged Skin
• National Eye Institute: Clinical Trial of Docosahexaenoic Acid in Patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa Receiving Vitamin A Treatment
• BMJ: Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial of efficacy of vitamin A treatment in non-measles childhood pneumonia
• PubMed Central: Vitamin A supplements and mortality related to measles: a randomised clinical trial.
• Tropical Medicine and International Health: Clinical trial of vitamin A as adjuvant treatment for lower respiratory tract infections.
• Blackwell Synergy: A randomized controlled clinical trial of zinc, vitamin A or both in undernourished children with persistent diarrhea in Bangladesh

Message Boards, Chat and Discussions about Vitamin A

• Acne.org: Topical Vitamin A?
• Sound Opinions Message Board: Carrot juice, is my favorite juice
• iVillage: Vitamin A and Pregnancy

Sources of Vitamin A

• Hopkins Technology: Food Sources of Vitamin A
• Culture, Environment, and Food to Prevent Vitamin A Deficiency: Food sources of Vitamin A
• Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet: Vitamin A (Retinol)

Deficiency of Vitamin A

• Colorado State University: Vitamin A (Retinol)
• Medical College of Wisconsin HealthLink: Vitamin A and Carotenoids
• Health AtoZ: Vitamin A Deficiency
• World Health Organization: Vitamin A supplementation
• Unicef: Vitamin A Deficiency