Vitamin B9 and Reduced Low 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

  • Reduced Low Birthweight

  • High evidence
  • Pregnant Women

  There may be little to no difference in infant low birthweight (33.4% versus 40.2%; RR 1.07, 95% CI 0.31 to 3.74; 2 trials, 1311 infants; low-certainty evidence)

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No