Tag: Nutritional Supplements

Insufficient evidence found for assessing benefits, harms of screening and iron supplementation for preventing adverse outcomes

Meta-analysis of three COSMOS substudies shows evidence of benefits on global cognition, episodic memory

Based on moderate-quality evidence, direct association seen for greater intensity of behavioral therapy with efficacy findings

Survey shows that with knowledge of long-term impacts, young adult men are willing to make behavior changes

Prevalence of melatonin consumption significantly higher for school-aged children, preteens versus preschool children

Vitamin E supplementation is associated with increased risk for recurrence; neither influenced progression, overall survival

Findings seen for visual acuity at 2.5 years of corrected age, but authors note that high loss to follow-up rate may have impacted findings

Additionally, wide variability seen across supplements for total daily dose

No significant difference seen for death or cerebral palsy at 2 years' corrected age for those receiving magnesium, placebo

Grade A recommendation intended to prevent neural tube defects in offspring among people planning to or who could become pregnant