| 41. | Chronic exposure to arsenic is related to vitamin A deficiency, which is related to heart disease and night blindness.
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| 42. | Proponents say it will save the eyesight of 500, 000 children a year who suffer from Vitamin A deficiency.
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| 43. | In areas with vitamin A deficiency, it is recommended that children aged 6 59 months receive two doses annually.
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| 44. | Childhood blindness, caused mainly by measles, conjunctivitis and Vitamin A deficiency, is increasing as more prematurely born babies survive.
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| 45. | The Bangladesh Nutritional Blindness Study was conducted, and it indicated that there was a high prevalence of vitamin A deficiency.
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| 46. | The United Nations in 2002 set a target of eliminating iodine deficiency by 2005 and vitamin A deficiency by 2010.
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| 47. | Traditional rice lacks vitamin A, and as many as two million children die each year because of vitamin A deficiencies.
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| 48. | Vitamin A deficiency is estimated to affect approximately one third of children under the age of five around the world.
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| 49. | It is worth mentioning that Bangladesh was the first country worldwide to undertake such a programme to combat Vitamin A deficiency.
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| 50. | The hybrid rice offers the possibility of countering the ravages of vitamin A deficiency, which affects some 100 million children worldwide.
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