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Vitamin and mineral levels

Zincand Serum zinc

Only one source here so far, and it measured higher serum zinc.

How sure anyone can be

Very low certainty, level 1 of 4

Any estimate here is very uncertain.

The numbers reported

6 percent change
% higher serum/plasma zinc per doubling of zinc intake

None of these sources gave a likely range — the band the real answer probably sits in — so how precise these numbers are is still an open question here.

One source, newest first

What we read is the published abstract, not the full paper, so a blank below may still be printed in the paper itself. A fixed rule worked this out from the source’s own fields. Nobody checked this rating by hand.

  • Systematic review, 2012

    Very low certainty, level 1 of 4

    The relationship between zinc intake and serum/plasma zinc concentration in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis by the EURRECA Network.

    Br J Nutr. 2012;108(11):1962-71. doi:10.1017/S0007114512004382. PMID:23244547.

    Number reported
    6 percent change
    Which way it went
    Higher
    Likely range
    Not in the abstract
    Source’s own words
    % higher serum/plasma zinc per doubling of zinc intake
    Who was studied
    Adult
    Compared with
    lower zinc intake (dose-response regression, not a fixed comparator arm)
    Amount taken
    Recorded detail — doubling of habitual or supplemental zinc intake
    For how long
    Not in the abstract
    Disagreement between studies
    I2 = 84.5%
    Kind of record
    Journal article
    How this rating was reachedstarts at High, 3 steps down: risk of bias, imprecision and inconsistency
    1. Starts at High
    2. Risk of bias brought it down to Moderatethe abstract reports no risk-of-bias or quality appraisal, so study limitations cannot be ruled outNot in the abstract
    3. Imprecision brought it down to Lowthe abstract reports no confidence interval for the estimateNot in the abstract
    4. Inconsistency brought it down to Very lowheterogeneity across pooled studies is high (I² = 84.5%)Reported in the abstract
    5. Ends at Very low3 steps down.
    Checked, nothing to step it down for
    indirectness

    Imprecision stops at the first check that applies; others may apply too.

    AI review could not confirm it — an AI agent re-read this finding against the saved source and at least one check failed. The batch record names the check and quotes the sentence that caused the doubt. No person read it.

    Read the abstract on PubMed

What is still missing from these readings

  • One gives no likely range, so how precise that number is is unknown.
  • One do not say how many people took part.
  • For how long — Not in the abstract.

Something nobody wrote down is never a zero and never a guess.

Still to read for Zinc

Three of the nine things on our list for Zinc have no reading here yet:

  • Fetal heart-rate variability
  • Serum copper
  • Total testosterone

Still to read means nobody here has got to it, not that it was tried and did nothing or that no research exists. A pairing on no list is not a gap: we never set out to read it.

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