Zinc supplementation in pregnant women vs supplementation without zinc or placebo to reduce stunting: Low birth weight (g)
Zinc supplementation in pregnant women showed no clear difference in low birth weight (g) compared with supplementation without zinc or placebo to reduce stunting (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Zinc supplementation in pregnant women vs supplementation without zinc or placebo to reduce stunting Low birth weight (g) · pregnant women Zinc supplementation in pregnant women showed no clear difference in low birth weight (g) compared with supplementation without zinc or placebo to reduce stunting (moderate certainty). Nutritional interventions for preventing stunting in children (birth to 59 months) living in urban slums in… (2019) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 2 studies · 1367 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nutritional interventions for preventing stunting in children (birth to 59 months) living in urban slums in low‐ and middle‐income… 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.