L-Arginine and Improved Quadriceps Strength

• THE EFFECT OF A SINGLE ORAL DOSE OF L-ARGININE ON QUADRICEPS STRENGTH IN SMOKERS AND NON-SMOKERS: A NON-RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL.

  • 2024-10-01
  • Clinical Trial · n = 164
  • Acta clinica Croatica 63(2)
  • • Goranka Radmilović
    • Sanja Popović-Grle
    • Valentina Matijević

  • PubMed: 40104233
  • DOI: 10.20471/acc.2024.63.02.7

  1 Insight on

  • Improved Quadriceps Strength

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Clinical

  the increase in quadriceps strength after oral administration of L-arginine was not dependent on smoking status but was more pronounced in smokers who started smoking at an earlier age and who smoked more cigarettes

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Dose

  500 mg (single oral dose)