Iron and Improved Short-term Memory

• Psychiatric and cognitive outcomes of iron supplementation in non-anemic children, adolescents, and menstruating adults: A meta-analysis and systematic review.

  • 2025-11
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 1,408
  • Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 178
  • • Dimitri Fiani
    • Sana Chahine
    • Mira Zaboube
    • Marco Solmi
    • Jacquelyn M Powers
    • Chadi Calarge

  • PubMed: 40945632
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106372

  7 Insights on

  • Improved Short-term Memory

  • High evidence
  • Mixed

  In RCTs, supplementation improved ... short-term memory (d = 0.53)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes