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Abbreviations
- BW:
-
birth weight
- E:
-
vitamin E
- GA:
-
gestational age
- NEC:
-
necrotizing enterocolitis
- P:
-
placebo
- PPRP:
-
pre-proliferative retinopathy
- ROP:
-
retinopathy of prematurity
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The clinical trial was supported by the Retinal and Choroidal Diseases Branch of the National Eye Institute (Grant No. RO1EY01723).
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Quinn, G.E., Johnson, L., Otis, C. et al. Incidence, severity and time course of ROP in a randomized clinical trial of vitamin E prophylaxis. Doc Ophthalmol 74, 223–228 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02482612
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