Coconut and Reduced Mortality Risk

• Topical emollient for preventing infection in preterm infants.

  • 2021-05-07
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 5,578
  • The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2021(5)
  • • Jemma Cleminson
    • William McGuire

  • PubMed: 33961715
  • DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd001150.pub4

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Mortality Risk

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  One trial (64 infants) that assessed the effect of coconut oil versus mineral oil in preterm infants with birth weight 1500 g to 2000 g in India reported no episodes of invasive infection or death in either group (very low certainty evidence)

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No