279
Participants
Start Date
September 30, 2012
Primary Completion Date
August 31, 2015
Study Completion Date
August 31, 2015
vitamin D (cholecalciferol) and PBA (sodium phenylbutyrate)
Dose of interventions: 5,000 IU of vitamin D (cholecalciferol tablets) once daily and 500 mg PBA (sodium phenylbutyrate tablets) twice daily for 16 weeks.
Placebo tablets
Placebo tablets for vitamin D once daily and placebo tablets for PBA (phenylbutyrate) twice daily for 16 weeks.
Black Lion Hospital (BLH), Addis Ababa University, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa University
OTHER
Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Ethiopia
OTHER
Karolinska Institutet
OTHER