L-Carnitine and Improved Prealbumin Level

• The efficacy of L-carnitine in improving malnutrition in patients on maintenance hemodialysis: a meta-analysis.

  • 2020-06
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Bioscience reports 40(6)
  • • Jianwei Zhou
    • Tubao Yang

  • PubMed: 32490516
  • DOI: 10.1042/bsr20201639

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Prealbumin Level

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  The results indicated that levocarnitine significantly improved the prealbumin level in patients on MHD. The pooled prealbumin level was 70.86 (95% CI: 42.99-98.73, P = 0.000).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes