Multivitamins & Birth Weight Study

Multivitamins & Birth Weight Study

Everyone knows that taking a good daily multivitamin is beneficial to our health, right? Well, if not, we’ll save that for another day. Here’s another story in the expanding knowledge base regarding the health benefits of multivitamins.

This interesting study published in the New England Journal of Medicine details an experiment where the researchers reported multivitamin supplementation in Tanzanian women helped reduce incidence of low birth weight, especially relative to gestational age.
Based on the potential role of micronutrient deficiencies in prematurity, infant mortality and low birth weight, researchers randomly assigned 8,468 pregnant, HIV-free women (gestational age of fetus, 12 to 27 weeks) to receive daily multivitamins (including multiples of the recommended dietary allowance) or placebo; all participants also received prenatal supplemental iron and folic acid.
Incidence of low birth weight (defined as less than 2,500 g) was 7.8 percent in the vitamin group, compared to 9.4 percent in the placebo group. Supplementation reduced both the risk of a birth size that was small for gestational age and the risk of maternal anemia, although the differences were modest. Considering these results, they suggested multivitamins should be considered for all pregnant women in developing countries.
We have to believe that research such as this continues to underscore the benefits of taking a good daily multivitamin right here at home. And it’s safe to assume that more studies will continue to be performed and released that further support the need for filling your nutritional gaps. If you’re still not one of the millions of Americans who don’t take a good multi-vitamin like CorePlex everyday, you’re missing out (literally). And as the study shows, adding iron to that multivitamin is very important for pregnant women (check out CorePlex with Iron).

Post was originally made on www.Supplementalscience.com