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Papers/PMID:35758130

Oral iron supplementation in patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ESC heart failure2022The record

1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint · 1 null

What it reported

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Every finding here is a null result.

What did not

1 finding

  • iron(2+) — no detected effect on all-cause mortality

    Evidence strength: moderate.FindingNull resultreplicated ×2
    “Assembling the evidence via the fixed‐effects model revealed no significant difference in all‐cause death between the oral iron and placebo groups (RR = 0.77; 95% CI, 0.46–1.29, Z = 0.98; P = 0.33).”
    Quoted verbatim from Oral iron supplementation in patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis..
    Study
    meta-analysis
    Population
    Patients with chronic heart failure (LVEF below 50%) and iron deficiency or mild anaemia; three randomised trials of oral iron versus placebo or blank control, follow-up 8 to 26 weeks

    Effect 0.77 risk ratio, 95% CI 0.46 to 1.29

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