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Zinc supplementation for the treatment of measles in children

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, June 2017
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Title
Zinc supplementation for the treatment of measles in children
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Cochrane database of systematic reviews, June 2017
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd011177.pub3
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Ajibola A Awotiwon, Olabisi Oduwole, Anju Sinha, Charles I Okwundu

Abstract

Measles is an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality globally, despite increasing vaccine coverage. Zinc plays a significant role in the maintenance of normal immunological functions, therefore supplements given to zinc-deficient children will increase the availability of zinc and could reduce measles-related morbidity and mortality. This is an update of a review first published in 2015. To assess the effects of zinc supplementation in reducing morbidity and mortality in children with measles. We searched CENTRAL (03 February 2017, Issue 2), MEDLINE (1946 to 03 February 2017), Embase (1974 to 03 February 2017), CINAHL (1981 to 03 February 2017), LILACS (1982 to 03 February 2017), Web of Science (1985 to 03 February 2017), and BIOSIS Previews (1985 to 27 June 2014). We also searched ClinicalTrials.gov, the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry and the World Health Organization (WHO) International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) on 03 February 2017 to identify unpublished and ongoing studies. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-RCTs evaluating the effects of zinc in reducing morbidity and mortality in children with measles. Two review authors independently assessed the studies for inclusion and extracted data on outcomes, details of the interventions, and other study characteristics using a standardised data extraction form. We used risk ratio (RR) and hazard ratio (HR) as measures of effect with 95% confidence intervals (CI). We included only one study, and did not conduct meta-analysis. We did not identify any new studies for inclusion in this update. One RCT met our inclusion criteria. The study was conducted in India and included 85 children diagnosed with measles and pneumonia. The trial showed no significant difference in mortality between children with measles and pneumonia who received zinc supplements and those who received placebo (RR 0.34, 95% CI 0.01 to 8.14). There was no significant difference in time to absence of fever between children who received zinc supplements and those who did not (HR 1.08, 95% CI 0.67 to 1.74). No treatment-related side effects were reported in either group. We assessed the overall quality of the evidence as very low. We could not draw any definitive conclusions from this review about the effects of zinc supplementation on clinical outcomes of children with measles due to the very low quality of the evidence available. There is insufficient evidence to confirm or refute the effect of zinc supplementation in children with measles.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 196 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 30 15%
Student > Master 29 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 8%
Student > Postgraduate 12 6%
Other 10 5%
Other 23 12%
Unknown 76 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 49 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 21 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 6 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 3%
Social Sciences 4 2%
Other 27 14%
Unknown 84 43%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. 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 23 April 2024.
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#1,849,459
of 25,773,273 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#3,938
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Outputs of similar age
#35,028
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Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#115
of 268 outputs
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