"Zinc supplementation" means adding extra zinc to your diet or taking it as a supplement to make sure your body has enough of this important mineral.
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In addition, this study found that
zinc supplementation did not significantly reduce the levels of copper or HDL cholesterol in the body.
A community - based randomized controlled trial of iron and
zinc supplementation in Indonesian infants: effects on growth and development.
Effect of oral
zinc supplementation on metallothionein and superoxide dismutase concentrations in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
Mori, R., Ota, E., Middleton, P., Tobe - Gai, R., Mahomed, K., and Bhutta, Z. A.
Zinc supplementation for improving pregnancy and infant outcome.
Prevention of diarrhea and pneumonia
by zinc supplementation in children in developing countries: pooled analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Terrin G, Berni Canani R, Passariello A, Messina F, Conti MG, Caoci S, Smaldore A, Bertino E, De Curtis M.
Zinc supplementation reduces morbidity and mortality in very - low - birth - weight preterm neonates: a hospital - based randomized, placebo - controlled trial in an industrialized country.
Osendarp, S. J., van Raaij, J. M., Darmstadt, G. L., Baqui, A. H., Hautvast, J. G., and Fuchs, G.
J. Zinc supplementation during pregnancy and effects on growth and morbidity in low birthweight infants: a randomised placebo controlled trial.
Lassi, Z. S., Haider, B. A., and Bhutta, Z.
A. Zinc supplementation for the prevention of pneumonia in children aged 2 months to 59 months.
Gatheru, Z., Kinoti, S., Alwar, J., and Mwita, M. Serum zinc levels in children with kwashiorkor aged one to three years at Kenyatta National Hospital and the effect of
zinc supplementation during recovery.
Ninh, N. X., Thissen, J. P., Collette, L., Gerard, G., Khoi, H. H., and Ketelslegers, J.
M. Zinc supplementation increases growth and circulating insulin - like growth factor I (IGF - I) in growth - retarded Vietnamese children.
Prasad, A., Beck, F. W., Bao, B., Fitzgerald, J. T., Snell, D. C., and Steinberg, J. D.
Zinc supplementation decreases incidence of infections and hospital admissions in sickle cell disease (SCD).
Roy, S. K., Hossain, M. J., Khatun, W., Chakraborty, B., Chowdhury, S., Begum, A., Mah - e-Muneer, Shafique, S., Khanam, M., and Chowdhury,
R. Zinc supplementation in children with cholera in Bangladesh: randomised controlled trial.
Roth, D. E., Richard, S. A., and Black, R.
E. Zinc supplementation for the prevention of acute lower respiratory infection in children in developing countries: meta - analysis and meta - regression of randomized trials.
Heinig, M. J., Brown, K. H., Lonnerdal, B., and Dewey, K.
G. Zinc supplementation does not affect growth, morbidity, or motor development of US term breastfed infants at 4 - 10 mo of age.
Mathew, J.
L. Zinc supplementation for prevention or treatment of childhood pneumonia: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
Benefit of oral
zinc supplementation as an adjunct to zidovudine (AZT) therapy against opportunistic infections in AIDS.
Bansal, A., Parmar, V. R., Basu, S., Kaur, J., Jain, S., Saha, A., and Chawla,
D. Zinc supplementation in severe acute lower respiratory tract infection in children: a triple - blind randomized placebo controlled trial.
Risk of pneumonia: Another Cochrane review found that children under age 5 who were at risk for pneumonia benefitted
from zinc supplementation and saw fewer instances of pneumonia and fewer deaths related to it.
Individuals with low zinc levels have shown reduced lymphocyte proliferation response to mitogens and other adverse alterations in immunity that can be corrected by zinc supplementation [49,51].
A randomized controlled study of the impact of
dietary zinc supplementation in the management of children with protein - energy malnutrition in Lesotho.
Iannotti, L. L., Zavaleta, N., Leon, Z., Huasquiche, C., Shankar, A. H., and Caulfield, L. E.
Maternal zinc supplementation reduces diarrheal morbidity in peruvian infants.
Bao, B., Prasad, A. S., Beck, F. W., Snell, D., Suneja, A., Sarkar, F. H., Doshi, N., Fitzgerald, J. T., and Swerdlow,
P. Zinc supplementation decreases oxidative stress, incidence of infection, and generation of inflammatory cytokines in sickle cell disease patients.
Matson, A., Wright, M., Oliver, A., Woodrow, G., King, N., Dye, L., Blundell, J., Brownjohn, A., and Turney, J.
Zinc supplementation at conventional doses does not improve the disturbance of taste perception in hemodialysis patients.
The therapeutic effect and the changed serum zinc level
after zinc supplementation in alopecia areata patients who had a low serum zinc level.
Tielsch, J. M., Khatry, S. K., Stoltzfus, R. J., Katz, J., LeClerq, S. C., Adhikari, R., Mullany, L. C., Black, R., and Shresta, S. Effect of
daily zinc supplementation on child mortality in southern Nepal: a community - based, cluster randomised, placebo - controlled trial.
Imdad, A. and Bhutta, Z. A. Effect of
preventive zinc supplementation on linear growth in children under 5 years of age in developing countries: a meta - analysis of studies for input to the lives saved tool.
Rosado, J. L., Lopez, P., Munoz, E., Martinez, H., and Allen, L.
H. Zinc supplementation reduced morbidity, but neither zinc nor iron supplementation affected growth or body composition of Mexican preschoolers.
Sazawal, S., Black, R. E., Jalla, S., Mazumdar, S., Sinha, A., and Bhan, M.
K. Zinc supplementation reduces the incidence of acute lower respiratory infections in infants and preschool children: a double - blind, controlled trial.
Villamor, E., Aboud, S., Koulinska, I. N., Kupka, R., Urassa, W., Chaplin, B., Msamanga, G., and Fawzi, W.
W. Zinc supplementation to HIV -1-infected pregnant women: effects on maternal anthropometry, viral load, and early mother - to - child transmission.
Taneja, S., Strand, T. A., Sommerfelt, H., Bahl, R., and Bhandari,
N. Zinc supplementation for four months does not affect growth in young north Indian children.
Gulani, A., Bhatnagar, S., and Sachdev, H. P.
Neonatal zinc supplementation for prevention of mortality and morbidity in breastfed low birth weight infants: systematic review of randomized controlled trials.