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boric acidFinding

Boric acid decreases all-cause mortality

lowersLimited evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“Patients in tertiles 2 and 3 of boron excretion had lower risk of mortality (HR: 0.59, 95% CI: 0.41 to 0.86, and HR: 0.36, 95% CI: 0.24 to 0.56, respectively) compared with patients in tertile 1 (Table 3).”
Quoted verbatim from Boron Intake and decreased risk of mortality in kidney transplant recipients.
This finding among the 156 findings on its endpoint

boric acid

All-cause mortality

lowers

Who
693 stable kidney transplant recipients (mean age 53), TransplantLines cohort; tertiles 2 and 3 of 24 h urinary boron excretion versus tertile 1, crude (unadjusted) hazard ratios
Dose studied
not reported

Limited evidencePMID 34677681 · 2022

02 · The study

Study
cohort
Duration
not reported

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderate
  • limitedthis finding
  • very limited
  • insufficient

03 · The paper

European journal of nutrition
What else it reported1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint

04 · To cite this finding

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https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M6WNF58TBD9XHBA2GBQWVTNS