PapersPMID:12297206
Alpha-ketoglutarate-supplemented enteral nutrition: effects on postoperative nitrogen balance and muscle catabolism.
What moved
1 findingHow to read these marks →- Decreases serum albumin
very limited
“Transthyretin decreased by 25% in both groups, and albumin decreased significantly in the enriched group compared with the standard nutrition.”
- Study
- RCT
- Duration
- 5 days
- Dose studied
- alpha-ketoglutarate enrichment of enteral formula, 5 days postoperatively; amount not stated in abstract
- Population
- Patients after elective abdominal surgery receiving enteral nutrition for 5 days; both arms received enteral nutrition, the intervention arm's solution enriched with alpha-ketoglutarate
Study record
- Design
- randomised controlled trial
- Species
- human
- Population
- patients undergoing elective abdominal surgery
- Participants
- 20
- Comparator
- an active treatment / no treatment
- Duration
- 5 days
- Endpoints measured
- 6