Vitamin E and Reduced Respiratory Distress Syndrome

• Vitamin A, C and/or E Intake During Pregnancy and Offspring Respiratory Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  • 2025-07-02
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 213
  • Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association 38(4)
  • • Vanessa E Murphy
    • Megan E Jensen
    • Soriah Harvey
    • Tesfalidet Beyene
    • Jake Gregson
    • Farihah Islam
    • William Huang
    • Katie Aistrope
    • Adam Collison

  • PubMed: 40605146
  • DOI: 10.1111/jhn.70086

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Respiratory Distress Syndrome

  • High evidence
  • Pregnant Women

  Vitamin supplementation (C+E) was not associated with infant RDS (OR: 1.15, 95% CI: 0.80-1.64, n=2 studies, moderate certainty) relative to placebo.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No