Vitamin B12 supplementation during pregnancy for maternal and child health outcomes.
- 2024-01-08
- Systematic Review · n = 412
- The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2024(1)
- Julia L Finkelstein
- Amy Fothergill
- Sudha Venkatramanan
- Alexander J Layden
- Jennifer L Williams
- Krista S Crider
- Yan Ping Qi
- PubMed: 38189492
- DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd013823.pub2
- High evidence
- Pregnant Women
children born to women who received vitamin B12 supplementation had improved expressive language domain compared to placebo (30 months, BSID-III; 1 trial; low-certainty evidence).
- Effect
- Beneficial
- Effect size
- Small
- Significant
- Yes
- Dose
- 5 μg/day to 250 μg/day