Trial reportThe Journal of nutrition2017
Maternal Supplementation with Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Compared with Multiple Micronutrients, but Not with Iron and Folic Acid, Reduces the Prevalence of Low Gestational Weight Gain in Semi-Urban Ghana: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
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Trial report in The Journal of nutrition, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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44citing papers in PubMed, 11 pooled it
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The trial behind it
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Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effective Implementation Strategies for Delivering Nutritional Interventions through the Health System to Prevent Malnutrition during Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Pooled it
- The effects of antenatal interventions on gestational weight gain in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMJ global health · 2026Pooled it
- The effect of prenatal balanced energy and protein supplementation on gestational weight gain: An individual participant data meta-analysis in low- and middle-income countries.PLoS medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Suboptimal gestational weight gain and neonatal outcomes in low and middle income countries: individual participant data meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2023Pooled it
- Risk factors for inadequate and excessive gestational weight gain in 25 low- and middle-income countries: An individual-level participant meta-analysis.PLoS medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of prenatal nutritional supplements on gestational weight gain in low- and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis of individual participant data.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Gestational weight gain and its effect on birth outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- Preventive lipid-based nutrient supplements given with complementary foods to infants and young children 6 to 23 months of age for health, nutrition, and developmental outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Multiple-micronutrient supplementation for women during pregnancy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Interventions to improve linear growth during exclusive breastfeeding life-stage for children aged 0-6 months living in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review with network and pairwise meta-analyses.Gates open research · 2019Pooled it
- Lipid-based nutrient supplements for maternal, birth, and infant developmental outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Effect of Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplementation on Children's Cortisol Concentration.Maternal & child nutrition · 2026Trial
- Effect of prenatal multiple micronutrient supplements and medium-quantity lipid-based nutritional supplements on maternal weight gain and infant birth weight in rural Niger: a cluster-randomised trial.BMJ global health · 2025Trial
- Prenatal and postnatal small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements and children's social-emotional difficulties at ages 9-11 y in Ghana: follow-up of a randomized controlled trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Trial
- Prevalence of morbidity symptoms among pregnant and postpartum women receiving different nutrient supplements in Ghana and Malawi: A secondary outcome analysis of two randomised controlled trials.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Trial
- Fortified Balanced Energy-Protein Supplementation, Maternal Anemia, and Gestational Weight Gain: A Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial among Pregnant Women in Rural Burkina Faso.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Trial
- Gestational weight gain during the second and third trimesters and adverse pregnancy outcomes, results from a prospective pregnancy cohort in urban Tanzania.Reproductive health · 2022Trial
- Multivitamin Supplementation Is Associated with Greater Adequacy of Gestational Weight Gain among Pregnant Women in Tanzania.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Trial
- The impact of maternal supplementation during pregnancy and the first 6 months postpartum on the growth status of the next child born after the intervention period: Follow-up results from Bangladesh and Ghana.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Trial
- Prenatal and postnatal lipid-based nutrient supplementation and cognitive, social-emotional, and motor function in preschool-aged children in Ghana: a follow-up of a randomized controlled trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2019Trial
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Authors and funding
9 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
Seth Adu-AfarwuahDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana; ct3665@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-2720-5474
Anna LarteyDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0002-7870-2606
Harriet OkronipaDepartment of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0002-5373-6754
Per AshornCenter for Child Health Research, University of Tampere School of Medicine and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-2311-2593
Ulla AshornCenter for Child Health Research, University of Tampere School of Medicine and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-1720-868X
Mamane ZeilaniNutriset S.A.S., Malaunay, France.ORCID 0000-0003-4566-6394
Mary ArimondProgram in International and Community Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, and.ORCID 0000-0003-1357-9077
Stephen A VostiDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA.
Kathryn G DeweyProgram in International and Community Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, and.
University of Ghana · GHNutrition 21 (United States) · USTampere University Hospital · FIUniversity of California, Davis · US
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Abstract
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Dietary SupplementsBody WeightFemaleFolic AcidGhanaHumansIronLipidsMicronutrientsPregnancyPrenatal Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaPrevalenceVitaminsFolic AcidIronLipidsMicronutrientsVitaminsgestational weight gainiron and folic acid supplementationlipid-based nutrient supplementsmaternal supplementationmultiple micronutrient supplementation
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