L-Carnitine and Reduced Mortality Rate

• The supplementation of L-carnitine in septic shock patients: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2022-01
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 275
  • Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 77
  • • Gabriel Voltani Guedes
    • Marcos Ferreira Minicucci
    • Suzana Erico Tanni

  • PubMed: 36327640
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.clinsp.2022.100124

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Mortality Rate

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  The effect of L-carnitine uses in septic shock patients showed a difference risk of -0.03 (95% Confidence Interval: -0.15-0.10, I2 = 77%, p = 0.69) compared to placebo/in mortality rate with low quality of evidence.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No