Papers/PMID:15724045
Oral zinc supplementation in pregnant women and its effect on birth weight: a randomised controlled trial.
Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition2005The record
1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint · 1 null
What it reported
How to read these marksEvery finding here is a null result.
What did not
1 finding
Zn(2+) — no detected effect on birth weight
Very limitedEvidence strength: very limited. Human evidence with major recorded weaknesses, or non-human, uncontrolled or unverified evidence.FindingNull resultreplicated ×1“No significant difference was found in the birth weights between the cases supplemented with 20 mg elemental zinc and controls receiving oral placebos (p=0.57).”
Quoted verbatim from Oral zinc supplementation in pregnant women and its effect on birth weight: a randomised controlled trial.. - Study
- RCT
- Dose
- 20 mg elemental zinc, oral
- Population
- Pregnant women in Pakistan, a zinc deficient area
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