PapersPMID:24353192
Meta-analysis: Effects of glycerol administration on plasma volume, haemoglobin, and haematocrit.
No finding here moved its endpoint.
What did not
1 findingHow to read these marks →- No detected effect on haematocrit
very limited
“Reductions in haemoglobin were 0.2 g/dl (95%-CI: -0.3, 0.0) larger and there was no difference in the changes in haematocrit between glycerol and fluid administration (95%-CI: -0.7-0.8%).”
- Study
- meta-analysis
- Dose studied
- glycerol hyperhydration with excess fluid
- Population
- Participants in seven studies of glycerol hyperhydration; haematocrit pooled over six of them; comparator was fluid only
Study record
- Design
- meta-analysis
- Species
- human
- Population
- Participants in seven studies of glycerol hyperhydration versus fluid only
- Participants
- not reported
- Comparator
- an active treatment / no treatment
- Duration
- not reported
- Endpoints measured
- 3