Papers/PMID:38649347
Folic acid supplementation on inflammation and homocysteine in type 2 diabetes mellitus: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Nutrition & diabetes2024The record
1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint · 1 null
What it reported
How to read these marksEvery finding here is a null result.
What did not
1 finding
folic acid — no detected effect on interleukin-6 concentration
ModerateEvidence strength: moderate. Human evidence with one recorded weakness, or capped at moderate by its design or by unread numbers.FindingNull result“Only two trials assessed the effect of folate on IL-6; the evidence from the random-effect meta-analysis showed a small effect size, and this also not significant, SMD = −0.04, 95%CI (−1.08, 1.01), p = 0.95.”
Quoted verbatim from Folic acid supplementation on inflammation and homocysteine in type 2 diabetes mellitus: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.. - Study
- meta-analysis
- Population
- Adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus; two randomized placebo-controlled trials pooled for IL-6
Effect -0.04 standardised mean difference, 95% CI -1.08 to 1.01
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