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lycopeneFinding

Lycopene increases birth weight

raisesModerate evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“Maternal trans-lycopene concentrations were positively associated with birth weight (p = 0.04), birth weight percentile ranking (p = 0.01), head circumference (p = 0.007), and birth length percentile ranking (p = 0.02).”
Quoted verbatim from Serum Lycopene Concentrations and Associations with Clinical Outcomes in a Cohort of Maternal-Infant Dyads.
This finding among the 13 findings on its endpoint

lycopene

Birth weight

raises

Who
180 mother-infant pairs at delivery in a Midwestern US academic medical center; maternal serum trans-lycopene by HPLC, not a dosed exposure
Dose studied
not reported

Moderate evidencePMID 29438287 · 2018

02 · The study

Study
cohort
Duration
not reported

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderatethis finding
  • limited
  • very limited
  • insufficient

03 · The paper

Nutrients
What else it reported1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint

04 · To cite this finding

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https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M6Y08PWS84BQXEMXK3FE523P