Iron and Reduced Anemia Risk

• Fortification of rice with vitamins and minerals for addressing micronutrient malnutrition.

  • 2019-10-25
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 8,245
  • The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2019(10)
  • • Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas
    • Prasanna Mithra
    • Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan
    • Nithin Kumar
    • Luz Maria De-Regil
    • N Sreekumaran Nair
    • Maria N Garcia-Casal
    • Juan Antonio Solon

  • PubMed: 31684687
  • DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd009902.pub2

  8 Insights on

  • Reduced Anemia Risk

  • High evidence
  • Mixed

  Fortification of rice with iron (alone or in combination with other micronutrients) may make little or no difference in the risk of having anaemia (risk ratio (RR) 0.72, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.54 to 0.97; I² = 74%; 7 studies, 1634 participants; low-certainty evidence)

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  0.2 to 112.8 mg/100 g uncooked rice