ReviewNutrients2024
Associations of Maternal Nutritional Status and Supplementation with Fetal, Newborn, and Infant Outcomes in Low-Income and Middle-Income Settings: An Overview of Reviews.
Review in Nutrients, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07489664 (Indigenous Nutritional Supplements for Pregnancy to Improve Resilience in Environmental Heat), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Indigenous Nutritional Supplements for Pregnancy to Improve Resilience in Environmental Heat
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of Digital Tools on Lifestyle & Health-Related Outcomes Across the Full Continuum of the Maternal Journey: A Systematic Review.Current obesity reports · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of Maternal Vitamin BCurrent nutrition reports · 2025Pooled it
- Modifiable risk factors for anemia in pregnancy: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- Birth Weight in Infants with a Cleft Lip and/or Palate: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The Journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
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- Advances in Nanoparticle-Based Vitamin Delivery Systems for Precision Nutrition and Improved Bioavailability.AAPS PharmSciTech · 2026Review
- Analysis of Causal Factors to Acute Malnutrition Among Children Under the Age of Five in West Nile, Uganda.Food science & nutrition · 2026Article
- Maternal nutritional status and the risk of metabolic syndrome in pregnancy: implications for public health nutrition.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
- From Preconception to Postnatal: Parental Risk Factors for Fetal-Infant Growth Faltering in LMICs-a Scoping Review (2020-2025).Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Review
- The double burden: co-occurrence of malaria and anaemia in children under five in Ghana - a multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Expert consensus on the treatment of oral diseases in pregnant women and infants.International journal of oral science · 2025Review
- Co-occurrence of maternal anemia and child undernutrition in Ethiopia: multilevel analysis of analysis of EDHS data (2005-2016).BMC public health · 2025Article
- Notch signaling pathway regulates the progression of fetal growth restriction through mediating immune dysfunction.Biomedical reports · 2025Article
- Prenatal Factors Influencing Calf Morbidity and Mortality in Dairy Cattle: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2000-2024).Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Association between three-timepoint maternal blood pressure trajectories during pregnancy and low birth weight: a longitudinal study based on NHANES 2005-2006.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
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Abstract
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objectivesDespite advances in maternal nutritional knowledge, the effect of maternal diet, micronutrient status and undernutrition, and the effect of maternal supplementation on fetal, neonatal and infant outcomes still have gaps in the literature. This overview of reviews is intended to assess the available information on these issues and identify the main maternal nutritional factors associated with offspring outcomes in low- and middle-income countries as possible targets for public health interventions.
methodsThe literature search was performed in Medline (PubMed) and Cochrane Library datasets in June 2024. Pre-specified outcomes in offspring were pooled using standard meta-analytical methods.
resultsWe found consistent evidence on the impact of maternal undernutrition indicated by low body mass index (BMI), mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), and stature, but not of individual micronutrient status, on intrauterine-growth retardation, preterm birth, low birth weight, and small for gestational age, with research showing a possible effect of maternal undernutrition in later child nutritional status. Studies on micronutrient supplementation showed possible beneficial effects of iron, vitamin D, and multiple micronutrients on birthweight and/or decreasing small for gestational age, as well as a possible effect of calcium on preterm birth reduction. Interventions showing more consistent beneficial outcomes were balanced protein-energy and lipid base supplements, which demonstrated improved weight in newborns from supplemented mothers and a decreased risk of adverse neonatal outcomes.
conclusionsFurther research is needed to identify the benefits and risks of maternal individual micronutrient supplementation on neonatal and further child outcomes.
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