Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements for children age 6-24 months : a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis of effects on developmental outcomes and effect modifiers

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BACKGROUND: Small-quantity (SQ) lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNSs) provide many nutrients needed for brain development.

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to generate pooled estimates of the effect of SQ-LNSs on developmental outcomes (language, social-emotional, motor, and executive function), and to identify study-level and individual-level modifiers of these effects.

METHODS: We conducted a 2-stage meta-analysis of individual participant data from 14 intervention against control group comparisons in 13 randomized trials of SQ-LNSs provided to children age 6-24 mo (total n = 30,024).

RESULTS: In 11-13 intervention against control group comparisons (n = 23,588-24,561), SQ-LNSs increased mean language (mean difference: 0.07 SD; 95% CI: 0.04, 0.10 SD), social-emotional (0.08; 0.05, 0.11 SD), and motor scores (0.08; 95% CI: 0.05, 0.11 SD) and reduced the prevalence of children in the lowest decile of these scores by 16% (prevalence ratio: 0.84; 95% CI: 0.76, 0.92), 19% (0.81; 95% CI: 0.74, 0.89), and 16% (0.84; 95% CI: 0.76, 0.92), respectively. SQ-LNSs also increased the prevalence of children walking without support at 12 mo by 9% (1.09; 95% CI: 1.05, 1.14). Effects of SQ-LNSs on language, social-emotional, and motor outcomes were larger among study populations with a higher stunting burden (≥35%) (mean difference: 0.11-0.13 SD; 8-9 comparisons). At the individual level, greater effects of SQ-LNSs were found on language among children who were acutely malnourished (mean difference: 0.31) at baseline; on language (0.12), motor (0.11), and executive function (0.06) among children in households with lower socioeconomic status; and on motor development among later-born children (0.11), children of older mothers (0.10), and children of mothers with lower education (0.11).

CONCLUSIONS: Child SQ-LNSs can be expected to result in modest developmental gains, which would be analogous to 1-1.5 IQ points on an IQ test, particularly in populations with a high child stunting burden. Certain groups of children who experience higher-risk environments have greater potential to benefit from SQ-LNSs in developmental outcomes.This trial was registered at www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO as CRD42020159971.

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CommentIn: Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 Nov 2;114(Supplement_1):1S-2S. - PMID 34590695

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:114

Enthalten in:

The American journal of clinical nutrition - 114(2021), Suppl 1 vom: 02. Nov., Seite 43S-67S

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Prado, Elizabeth L [VerfasserIn]
Arnold, Charles D [VerfasserIn]
Wessells, K Ryan [VerfasserIn]
Stewart, Christine P [VerfasserIn]
Abbeddou, Souheila [VerfasserIn]
Adu-Afarwuah, Seth [VerfasserIn]
Arnold, Benjamin F [VerfasserIn]
Ashorn, Ulla [VerfasserIn]
Ashorn, Per [VerfasserIn]
Becquey, Elodie [VerfasserIn]
Brown, Kenneth H [VerfasserIn]
Chandna, Jaya [VerfasserIn]
Christian, Parul [VerfasserIn]
Dentz, Holly N [VerfasserIn]
Dulience, Sherlie J L [VerfasserIn]
Fernald, Lia C H [VerfasserIn]
Galasso, Emanuela [VerfasserIn]
Hallamaa, Lotta [VerfasserIn]
Hess, Sonja Y [VerfasserIn]
Huybregts, Lieven [VerfasserIn]
Iannotti, Lora L [VerfasserIn]
Jimenez, Elizabeth Y [VerfasserIn]
Kohl, Patricia [VerfasserIn]
Lartey, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Le Port, Agnes [VerfasserIn]
Luby, Stephen P [VerfasserIn]
Maleta, Kenneth [VerfasserIn]
Matchado, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Matias, Susana L [VerfasserIn]
Mridha, Malay K [VerfasserIn]
Ntozini, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Null, Clair [VerfasserIn]
Ocansey, Maku E [VerfasserIn]
Parvez, Sarker M [VerfasserIn]
Phuka, John [VerfasserIn]
Pickering, Amy J [VerfasserIn]
Prendergast, Andrew J [VerfasserIn]
Shamim, Abu A [VerfasserIn]
Siddiqui, Zakia [VerfasserIn]
Tofail, Fahmida [VerfasserIn]
Weber, Ann M [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Lee S F [VerfasserIn]
Dewey, Kathryn G [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Child undernutrition
Complementary feeding
Executive function
Journal Article
Language development
Lipids
Meta-Analysis
Motor development
Nutrient supplements
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Social-emotional development
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 10.11.2021

Date Revised 14.02.2023

published: Print

CommentIn: Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 Nov 2;114(Supplement_1):1S-2S. - PMID 34590695

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/ajcn/nqab277

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM331315912