Vitamin B9 and Increased Infant Birthweight

• Daily oral iron supplementation during pregnancy.

  • 2024-08-15
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 2,873
  • The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2024(8)
  • • Julia L Finkelstein
    • Anna Cuthbert
    • Jo Weeks
    • Sudha Venkatramanan
    • Doreen Y Larvie
    • Luz Maria De-Regil
    • Maria Nieves Garcia-Casal

  • PubMed: 39145520
  • DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd004736.pub6

  12 Insights on

  • Increased Infant Birthweight

  • High evidence
  • Pregnant Women

  Infants born to women who received iron + folic acid during pregnancy probably had higher birthweight (MD 57.73 g, 95% CI 7.66 to 107.79; 2 trials, 1365 infants; moderate-certainty evidence)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes