SynthesisNutrients2018
Effect of Zinc Supplementation on Growth Outcomes in Children under 5 Years of Age.
Synthesis in Nutrients, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
39 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- The effect of zinc supplementation on anthropometric measurements in healthy children over two years: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2023Pooled it
- Toward revising dietary zinc recommendations for children aged 0 to 3 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis of zinc absorption, excretion, and requirements for growth.Nutrition reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Effect of zinc supplementation on mortality in under 5-year children: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.European journal of nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Enteral zinc supplementation for prevention of morbidity and mortality in preterm neonates.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Trial
- Prevalence of Zinc Deficiency in Healthy 1-3-Year-Old Children from Three Western European Countries.Nutrients · 2021Trial
- Impact of Daily Preventive Zinc or Therapeutic Zinc Supplementation for Diarrhea on Plasma Biomarkers of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction among Rural Laotian Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Trial
- Markers of Systemic Inflammation and Environmental Enteric Dysfunction Are Not Reduced by Zinc or Multivitamins in Tanzanian Infants: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial.The Journal of pediatrics · 2019Trial
- The equity and effectiveness of China's 2009 folic acid supplementation programme for long-term child development.Global health action · 2026Article
- The gut microbiota in malnutrition.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Longitudinal Height Growth Patterns Among Children Receiving Menaquinone-7 Supplementation.Nutrients · 2026Observational
- A2 β-casein infant formula with high sn-2 palmitate and casein phosphopeptides (CPP) supports energy and mineral absorption in Chinese infants.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Assessment and management of magnesium and trace element status in children with CKD stages 2-5, on dialysis and post-transplantation: Clinical practice points from the Pediatric Renal Nutrition Taskforce.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2025Review
- Adaptive Responses in Severe Acute Malnutrition: Endocrinology, Metabolomics, Mortality, and Growth.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Supplementation of zinc-chelating peptides fromFrontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Review
- The role of zinc in the premature brain: functions, outcomes and future research perspectives.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Review
- Soil micronutrients linked to human health in India.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The relationship between dietary patterns and blood mineral concentration among children in Hunan Province of China.BMC public health · 2023Article
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7 authors.
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Abstract
(1) Background: The effects of zinc supplementation on child growth, and prior reviews of these studies, have shown mixed results. We aim to systematically review and meta-analyze randomized controlled trials evaluating effects of preventive zinc supplementation for 3 months or longer during pregnancy or in children up to age 5 years on pregnancy outcomes and child growth; (2) Methods: We searched PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and trial registries for eligible trials up to October 10, 2017. Inclusion selection and data extractions were performed independently and in duplicate. Study quality was evaluated by the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool. Findings were pooled using random effects meta-analysis, with heterogeneity assessed by
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