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