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There are animal sources (retinol) and vegetable sources (carotenoids) of vitamin A in foods.

Inadequate intake of vitamin A can cause night blindness, dry scaly skin, increased risk for infections, and poor growth.

This document is FCS8639, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida.

Reviewed by R. Elaine Turner, PhD, RD, Isabel Valentín-Oquendo, MS, RD, LD/N, and Jennifer Hillan, MSH, RD, LD/N, University of Florida; Linda Bowman, Santa Rosa County Extension Service; Linda Nolte, Palm Beach County Extension Service; Susan Nitzke, University of Wisconsin; Suzanne Pelican, University of Wyoming; and Christina Stark, Cornell University.

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To investigate whether excessive dietary intake of vitamin A (retinol) is associated with decreased bone mineral density and increased risk for hip fracture.

For the case-control study, 247 women who had a first hip fracture within 2 to 64 months after enrollment and 873 age-matched controls were selected from women aged 40 to 76 years participating in the Swedish Mammography Cohort [2].

Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry was used to measure bone mineral density at the lumbar spine, the total body, and three regions of the proximal femur.

The mean daily intake of vitamin A in these cohorts was more than three times the 0.5-mg daily dose of retinol equivalents recommended by the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization [4].

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Vitamin A deficiency is a worldwide problem and is most commonly seen among women and children in developing countries.

y increased rates of miscarriage, ill-health and death in pregnant women; and y low birth-weight and premature babies.

Vitamin A is found in a range of foods, and exists in two forms --- retinol and carotene.

Breastmilk is a good source of retinol and is very well absorbed by babies.

For most babies who are exclusively breastfed, breastmilk can provide all their vitamin A needs until six months of age.

In many parts of the world, and here in the Pacific, countries have adopted mass population supplementation programmes to provide additional vitamin A to those people at particular risk.