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creatineFinding

Creatine increases triglycerides

raisesModerate evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“Triglycerides increased with creatine at week 14 (P = 0.04 vs. placebo).”
Quoted verbatim from Creatine fails to augment the benefits from resistance training in patients with HIV infection: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
This finding among the 108 findings on its endpoint

creatine

Triglycerides

raises

Who
Clinically stable, sedentary HIV-positive men; thrice-weekly supervised progressive resistance training from week 2 to week 14 in both arms
Dose studied
creatine monohydrate 20 g/day loading for 5 days, then 4.8 g/day, with 5-day reloading at weeks 7 and 13; each dose taken with a 20 g carbohydrate juice in both arms

Moderate evidencePMID 19242554 · 2009

02 · The study

Study
RCT
Duration
3 months

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderatethis finding
  • limited
  • very limited
  • insufficient

03 · The paper

PloS one
What else it reported1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint

04 · To cite this finding

This address does not change

https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M6WF4KVX35Y0PEWV4BHTKDSY