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Effect of vitamin A, calcium and vitamin D fortification and supplementation on nutritional status of women: an overview of systematic reviews.
Plain-language guide to PMID 33109248 (2020): review of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.
Key Facts
- PMID
- 33109248
- Journal
- Systematic reviews
- Year
- 2020
- Study type
- Review
- Authors
- Rajwar E et al. (4 authors)
- DOI
- 10.1186/s13643-020-01501-8
What This Paper Covers, in Plain Language
What It Covers
Researchers studied Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in this review publication.
To assess the effect of vitamin A, vitamin D, and calcium fortification and supplementation on nutritional status of women in reproductive age group.
To assess the toxicities and adverse events related to intervention.
Why It Was Studied
Micronutrient deficiency affects the health and development of vulnerable population such as children and pregnant women.
A priori protocol for this overview of systematic reviews was registered in PROSPERO with registration number CRD42018089403.
Who the Included Studies Covered
By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were children, women only.
Systematic reviews including RCTs on women of reproductive age group provided with vitamin A, vitamin D, and calcium supplementation or fortified food were included, to report all malnutrition-related outcomes due to deficiency of the abovementioned micronutrients.
How the Review Was Done
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, EPPI Centre, Campbell Collaboration, PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus were searched electronically for English language publications, until 31 March 2018.
Hand searching of the articles was done from the Journal of Food Science and Technology.
Two independent reviewers selected the systematic reviews, extracted data, and assessed for the quality.
What Was Measured
The subject headings attached to it are Calcium, Dietary Supplements, Nutritional Status, Systematic Reviews as Topic, Vitamin A and Vitamin D.
Author keywords: Food fortification, Overview of systematic reviews, Supplementation and Women.
What This Means in Plain Language
This is a review of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.
Results are reported in around 8 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.
The publication is from 2020 (Systematic reviews), a journal based in England.
More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.
Our Notes on the Compound
Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc: Magnesium is described as required for AMPK to function.
Related Pages
Source: PubMed record. This explanation is written by PeptideWhiz from the public record. For research and education only. Not medical advice; no dosing information is given.