{"id":5612,"date":"2022-09-13T10:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/the-beneficial-effects-of-zinc-supplements-on-the-incidence-of-pneumonia-and-diarrhea-in-children\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:03","slug":"the-beneficial-effects-of-zinc-supplements-on-the-incidence-of-pneumonia-and-diarrhea-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/the-beneficial-effects-of-zinc-supplements-on-the-incidence-of-pneumonia-and-diarrhea-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The beneficial effects of zinc supplements on the incidence of pneumonia and diarrhea in children"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>Infectious diseases are associated with high morbidity and mortality rates in children in developing countries. A study conducted by several Bengali and American researchers investigated the effects of a weekly zinc supplementation on the incidence of pneumonia and diarrhea in children in Bangladesh. The study participants \u2013 children aged between 60 days and 12 months \u2013 were divided into two groups. The first group (809 children) received a zinc supplement; the second group (812 children) received a placebo product once a week for 12 months. The study found significantly fewer cases of pneumonia (199 vs. 286), diarrhea (1881 vs. 2407) and a lower number of deaths (2 vs. 14) after zinc supplementation. Specifically, no pneumonia-related deaths were observed in the supplementation group, compared to 10 cases in the placebo group. More details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Brooks et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/16168782\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Infectious diseases are associated with high morbidity and mortality rates in children in developing countries. A study conducted by several Bengali and American researchers investigated the effects of a weekly zinc supplementation on the incidence of pneumonia and diarrhea in children in Bangladesh. The study participants \u2013 children aged between 60 days and 12&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6331,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions\/6331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}