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Iodide has no detected effect on low birth weight incidence

no difference foundModerate evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“The percentage of infants classified as low birth weight (<2500 g) or small for gestational age or large for gestational age, or with a neonatal complication or major congenital abnormality, did not differ between the treatment and placebo groups (Table 4).”
Quoted verbatim from The effect of iodine supplementation in pregnancy on early childhood neurodevelopment and clinical outcomes: results of an aborted randomised placebo-controlled trial.
This finding among the 6 findings on its endpoint

iodide

Low birth weight incidence

no difference found

Who
Infants of 59 pregnant women in Adelaide, Australia, randomised before 20 weeks of gestation to iodine or placebo; a trial stopped early after funding withdrawal
Dose studied
150 μg iodine as potassium iodide, one tablet daily from randomisation to end of pregnancy

Moderate evidencePMID 26654905 · 2015

02 · The study

Study
RCT
Duration
not reported

Evidence, by strength

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

03 · The paper

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

04 · To cite this finding

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https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M71PK9XGVQ5H3XN3ZJ43JGFR