Vitamin B9 and Improved Embryonic Growth

• Parental conditions, modifiable lifestyle factors, and first trimester growth and development: a systematic review.

  • 2025-02-14
  • Systematic Review · n = 4,708
  • Human reproduction update 31(3)
  • • Naomi Graafland
    • Melek Rousian
    • Merle L de Zwart
    • Regine P M Steegers-Theunissen
    • Eric A P Steegers
    • Anke G Posthumus

  • PubMed: 39953705
  • DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmaf001

  1 Insight on

  • Improved Embryonic Growth

  • High evidence
  • Pregnant Women

  maternal age, folic acid supplement use, and folate levels were positively associated with embryonic growth and development.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  not specified (supplement use)