PapersPMID:12352035
Glutamine supplementation in serious illness: a systematic review of the evidence.
- findings
- 2
- compound
- 1
- endpoints
- 2
L-glutamine- Study, every finding
- meta-analysis
- Population, every finding
- surgical and critically ill adult patients (pooled meta-analysis of 14 randomised trials, various glutamine doses and routes)
What moved
How to read these marks →“Glutamine supplementation was also associated with a lower rate of infectious complications (RR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.64-1.00) and a shorter hospital stay (-2.6 days; 95% CI, -4.5 to -0.7).”
- Decreases infectious complication rate
very limited
- Effect
- 0.81 risk ratio, 95% CI 0.64 to 1
- Decreases hospital length of stay
very limitedreplicated ×3
- Effect
- −2.6 mean difference, 95% CI −4.5 to −0.7
Study record
- Design
- meta-analysis
- Species
- human
- Population
- surgical and critically ill adult patients (pooled meta-analysis of 14 randomised trials, various glutamine doses and routes)
- Participants
- not reported
- Comparator
- not stated in the paper
- Duration
- not reported
- Endpoints measured
- 9