Vitamin A and Improved Milk Vitamin A Concentration

• Effects of vitamin and multiple micronutrient supplementation for pregnant and/or lactating women on maternal and infant nutritional status in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2025-12
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) 16(12)
  • • Sachin Shinde
    • Cara A Yelverton
    • Mashavu Yussuf
    • Lina Nurhussien
    • Dongqing Wang
    • Wafaie W Fawzi

  • PubMed: 40752545
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.advnut.2025.100487

  7 Insights on

  • Improved Milk Vitamin A Concentration

  • High evidence
  • Pregnant Women

  Postpartum vitamin A supplementation improved milk vitamin A concentrations (SMD 0.53; 95% CI 0.19, 0.86; P<0.001), particularly with single high-dose regimens.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  single high-dose regimens