Vitamin B12 levels in children and adolescents on plant-based diets: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

What It Covers

Researchers studied Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12) in this meta-analysis publication.

This aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to qualitatively evaluate all studies on this subject and to quantify the potential difference in vitamin B12 levels in healthy children and adolescents aged 5 to 18 years.

Why It Was Studied

The exclusion of animal products removes the most common sources of vitamin B12, which can lead to vitamin B12 deficiency and result in irreversible damage, such as growth stunting.

PubMed and Embase databases were searched for relevant studies investigating vitamin B12 levels in healthy children and adolescents aged 5 to 18 years on plant-based diets.

Who the Included Studies Covered

The age groups tagged for this paper are children.

How the Review Was Done

Studies were assessed qualitatively with the AXIS tool and quantitatively with Stata 16.0 software.

What Was Measured

PubMed and Embase databases were searched for relevant studies investigating vitamin B12 levels in healthy children and adolescents aged 5 to 18 years on plant-based diets.

Moreover, total vitamin B12 intake nullified the mean difference in vitamin B12 levels.

PubMed files the paper under topics including Diet, Diet, Vegetarian, Nutritional Status, Vitamin B 12 and Vitamin B 12 Deficiency.

The authors tagged it with the keywords adolescents, children, macrobiotic, meta-analysis, plant-based and systematic review.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is a meta-analysis of Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12).

Its findings take up roughly 1 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2023 (Nutrition reviews), a journal based in United States.

More context: the Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12) compound page, all human trials.