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WHO recommendation: Calcium supplementation during pregnancy for the prevention of pre-eclampsia and its complications. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2018.

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Acronyms and abbreviations

ANC

Antenatal care

BMGF

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

CI

Confidence interval

DOI

Declaration of Interest

FIGO

International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics

FWC

Family, Women’s and Children’s Health (a WHO cluster)

GDG

Guideline Development Group

GRC

Guideline Review Committee

GRADE

Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation

GREAT

Guideline development, Research priorities, Evidence synthesis, Applicability of evidence, Transfer of knowledge (a WHO project)

GSG

Executive Guideline Steering Group

HELLP

Haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelet

ICM

International Confederation of Midwives

ICU

Intensive Care Unit

LMIC

Low and middle-income country

MAP

Mean Arterial Pressure

MCA

[WHO Department of] Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health

MCSP

Maternal and Child Survival Programme

MPA

Maternal and Perinatal Health and Preventing Unsafe Abortion (a team in WHO’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research)

MPH

Maternal and perinatal health

NHD

[WHO Department of] Nutrition for Health and Development

NICU

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

NNT

Number needed to treat

PICO

Population (P), intervention (I), comparison (C), outcome (O)

RCT

Randomized Controlled Trial

RHR

[WHO Department of] Reproductive Health and Research

RR

Relative risk

SDG

Sustainable Development Goals

UN

United Nations

UNFPA

United Nations Population Fund

USAID

United States Agency for International Development

WHO

World Health Organization

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