Maternal vitamin D status and risk of pre-eclampsia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

What It Covers

The paper reports a study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc, published as a meta-analysis.

Although several studies have investigated the association between maternal serum vitamin D levels and risk of pre-eclampsia, findings are inconsistent.

This systematic review and meta-analysis of published observational studies was conducted to summarize the evidence on the association between maternal serum vitamin D levels and risk of pre-eclampsia.

Who the Included Studies Covered

PubMed tags the participants as women only.

How the Review Was Done

PubMed, ISI (Web of science), SCOPUS, SCIRUS, Google Scholar, and EMBASE databases were searched to identify related articles published through December 2012.

For systematic review, the researchers found 15 articles that assessed the association between maternal serum vitamin D levels and risk of pre-eclampsia.

Between-study heterogeneity was examined using Cochran's Q test and I(2).

Subgroup analysis and meta-regression were used to find possible sources of heterogeneity.

What Was Measured

Although several studies have investigated the association between maternal serum vitamin D levels and risk of pre-eclampsia, findings are inconsistent.

This systematic review and meta-analysis of published observational studies was conducted to summarize the evidence on the association between maternal serum vitamin D levels and risk of pre-eclampsia.

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Pre-Eclampsia, Risk and Vitamin D.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is a meta-analysis of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

Its findings take up roughly 6 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2013 (The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism), a journal based in United States.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.