Therapeutic effect of Vitamin A on severe COVID-19 patients
Al-Sumiadai et al., EurAsian Journal of Biosciences, 14:7347-7350
Retrospective 70 severe condition patients treated with vitamin A (200,000IU for two days), salbutamol, and budesonide, and 70 patients not treated with vitamin A, showing significantly lower mortality with the addition of vitamin A.
risk of death, 85.7% lower, RR 0.14, p = 0.002, treatment 2 of 70 (2.9%), control 14 of 70 (20.0%), NNT 5.8.
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Al-Sumiadai et al., 12/31/2020, retrospective, Iraq, Middle East, peer-reviewed, 3 authors.