The effect of zinc supplementation on pregnancy outcome: a randomized controlled trial.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in this randomized controlled trial publication.

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of prenatal zinc supplementation on pregnancy outcomes.

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 540 women taking part.

The age groups tagged for this paper are young adults and adults, women only.

A randomized controlled trial with equal randomization (1:1) was conducted on 540 pregnant women in Rasht, Iran from January 2010 to January 2012.

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was a randomized study.

The women were allocated by chance, so the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc group and the comparison group should start out alike.

What Was Measured

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Birth Weight, Dietary Supplements, Iran, Pregnancy Complications, Pregnancy Outcome and Zinc.

Author keywords: maternal outcome, neonatal outcome and zinc supplementation.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 540 women.

With several hundred people or more, it is a fairly large study for this kind of research.

Its findings take up roughly 4 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2016 (The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians), a journal based in England.

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