Effect of maternal supplement beverage with and without probiotics during pregnancy and lactation on maternal and infant health: a randomized controlled trial in the Philippines.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Copper (Supplement) in this randomized controlled trial publication.

The primary objective of this study was to assess the effect of a maternal nutritional supplement enriched with probiotics during pregnancy and early lactation on the incidence of infant diarrhea.

Why It Was Studied

Adequate nutrition is essential during pregnancy and lactation to provide sufficient energy and nutrients to meet the nutritional requirements of the mother, fetus and infant.

Who Took Part

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

How the Study Was Run

The design is described as randomized.

The participants were allocated by chance, so the Copper (Supplement) group and the comparison group should start out alike.

Incidence of infant diarrhea until 12 months post-delivery was analyzed by Poisson regression.

The effect on maternal health, fetal growth, and infant growth and morbidity were also evaluated and analyzed by ANOVA.

What Was Measured

The subject headings attached to it are Beverages, Birth Weight, Breast Feeding, Diarrhea, Dietary Supplements, Fetal Development and Incidence.

The authors tagged it with the keywords Bifidobacterium lactis, Infant growth, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Maternal supplementation, Probiotics and Safety.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Copper (Supplement).

The abstract goes on to report its results in about 8 sentences; this page does not restate them, so read the paper for the findings and their limits.

The publication is from 2018 (BMC pregnancy and childbirth), a journal based in England.

More context: the Copper (Supplement) compound page, all human trials.