Question

6. (3 pts) A randomized clinical trial was conducted in Indonesia to study the effects of Vitamin A in preventing deaths among children with measles. The investigators reported a relative risk of 0.60 for the intervention versus control group. This means that A) Children receiving Vitamin A were 40% less likely to die from measles than children receiving placebo, therefore Vitamin A was protective B) The chance of dying from measles in the placebo group was 60% C) 60% of the children who died received Vitamin A; the other 40% received placebo D) Vitamin A caused children with measles to die more often than kids given a placebo

Answer 1

Option A is correct as the finding of the current clinical trial reflects that children recievingVitamin A were 40 % less ikely to die from measels than the children recieving placebo. As the relative risk is 0.60 for the intervention versus control group. Hence Vitamin A was proved to be protective in case of measles.