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SynthesisMaternal & child nutrition2025

N-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation in Mothers and Infants for Childhood Psychomotor and Cognitive Development: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Yingyu Liu, Lijun Zhong, Zhouyang Sun, Yuan Feng, Qianlu Ding, Yujian Zhang

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Synthesis in Maternal & child nutrition, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Yingyu LiuDivision of Surveillance and Evaluation, Chinese Center for Health Education, Beijing, China.
Lijun ZhongDepartment of Cancer Prevention and Control, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, Sichuan Cancer Center, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Zhouyang SunDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Yuan FengDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Qianlu DingDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Yujian ZhangDepartment of Cancer Prevention and Control, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, Sichuan Cancer Center, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1985-7130

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) consumption in maternal and infants has been positively associated with cognitive and visual development. Tails even meta-analysis showed mixed results. To evaluate the effects of maternal and infant n-3 PUFA supplementation on childhood psychomotor and cognitive development, PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, PsycINFO and clinicaltrials.gov were searched. Randomized controlled trials were included to evaluate the effect on child cognitive and psychomotor outcomes of n-3 PUFA supplementation in mothers or infants (age ≤ 2 years). Findings were pooled with mean differences (MD) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs). Heterogeneity was explored using I

Indexed as

Child DevelopmentCognitionDietary SupplementsFatty Acids, Omega-3Maternal Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaPsychomotor PerformanceFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornInfant Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaInfant, PrematureMothersPregnancyRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicFatty Acids, Omega-3cognitionfatty acids unsaturatedgrowth and developmentinfant formulaintelligencemeta‐analysisWechsler scales

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PMID39609259
PMCPMC11956035

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