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Antioxidants for preventing pre‐eclampsia

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2008
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Title
Antioxidants for preventing pre‐eclampsia
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2008
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd004227.pub3
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Alice Rumbold, Lelia Duley, Caroline A Crowther, Ross R Haslam

Abstract

Oxidative stress has been proposed as a key factor involved in the development of pre-eclampsia. Supplementing women with antioxidants during pregnancy may help to counteract oxidative stress and thereby prevent or delay the onset of pre-eclampsia. To determine the effectiveness and safety of any antioxidant supplementation during pregnancy and the risk of developing pre-eclampsia and its related complications. We searched the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group's Trials Register (May 2007), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (The Cochrane Library 2006, Issue 3), MEDLINE (1950 to October 2007) and Current Contents (1998 to August 2004). All randomised trials comparing one or more antioxidants with either placebo or no antioxidants during pregnancy for the prevention of pre-eclampsia, and trials comparing one or more antioxidants with another, or with other interventions. Two review authors independently assessed trials for inclusion and trial quality and extracted data. Ten trials, involving 6533 women, were included in this review, five trials were rated high quality. For the majority of trials, the antioxidant assessed was combined vitamin C and E therapy. There was no significant difference between antioxidant and control groups for the relative risk (RR) of pre-eclampsia (RR 0.73, 95% confidence intervals (CI) 0.51 to 1.06; nine trials, 5446 women) or any other primary outcome: severe pre-eclampsia (RR 1.25, 95% CI 0.89 to 1.76; two trials, 2495 women), preterm birth (before 37 weeks) (RR 1.10, 95% CI 0.99 to 1.22; five trials, 5198 women), small-for-gestational-age infants (RR 0.83, 95% CI 0.62 to 1.11; five trials, 5271 babies) or any baby death (RR 1.12, 95% CI 0.81 to 1.53; four trials, 5144 babies). Women allocated antioxidants were more likely to self-report abdominal pain late in pregnancy (RR 1.61, 95% CI 1.11 to 2.34; one trial, 1745 women), require antihypertensive therapy (RR 1.77, 95% CI 1.22 to 2.57; two trials, 4272 women) and require an antenatal hospital admission for hypertension (RR 1.54, 95% CI 1.00 to 2.39; one trial, 1877 women). However, for the latter two outcomes, this was not clearly reflected in an increase in any other hypertensive complications. Evidence from this review does not support routine antioxidant supplementation during pregnancy to reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia and other serious complications in pregnancy.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
Ethiopia 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 389 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 68 17%
Student > Bachelor 47 12%
Researcher 32 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 7%
Student > Postgraduate 24 6%
Other 89 22%
Unknown 109 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 158 40%
Nursing and Health Professions 40 10%
Psychology 18 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 3%
Other 38 10%
Unknown 119 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 September 2019.
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#5,363,297
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#7,295
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Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#39
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