Vitamin E and Reduced Wheeze

• 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 Wheeze

  • High evidence
  • Pregnant Women

  this was not true for vitamin C intake (aOR: 0.85, 95% CI: 0.63-1.16, n=2 observational studies, very low certainty).

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  500 mg/day

• Vitamin E and Multiple Health Outcomes: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses.

  • 2023-07-25
  • Systematic Review
  • Nutrients 15(15)
  • • Zheyu Xiong
    • Linhu Liu
    • Zhongyu Jian
    • Yucheng Ma
    • Hong Li
    • Xi Jin
    • Banghua Liao
    • Kunjie Wang

  • PubMed: 37571239
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu15153301

  8 Insights on

  • Reduced Wheeze

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  Only the association between circulating α-tocopherol and wheeze or asthma in children was substantiated by consistent evidence.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes