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    VITAMIN A STATUS AND THE EFFECT OF ORAL SUPPLEMENTATION IN PREGNANT NIGERIAN WOMEN
    (1991) ADEYEFA, I. O.
    This study was designed to investigate vitamin A nutritional status of pregnant and non pregnant non lactating Nigerian women. The beneficial effects of oral vitamin A supplementation was also investigated in the pregnant women. The study was carried out in three one was the cross-sectional study carried out on 22, 88 and 61 pregnant women in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd trimesters. The controls were 35 non pregnant non lactating women in the proliferative phase of the menstrual cycle. Their ages ranged from 18 to 45yrs with a mean age of 27.8+/— 6.82yrs. The subjects were randomly selected from both the University teaching and Adeoyo hospitals, Ibadan and the study lasted for a period of nine months. The result of the study showed that 11% of the subjects had plasma vitamin A levels in the deficient range << 20ug/dl) while 60% had marginal values (20 - 29ug/dl). Plasma vitamin A levels was observed to decrease as pregnancy progressed