L-Carnitine and Reduced Muscle Cramp Frequency

• Pharmacological Treatment for Dialysis-Related Muscle Cramps: A Systematic Review.

  • 2024-08-18
  • Systematic Review · n = 4,660
  • Seminars in dialysis 37(6)
  • • Nidia Mantilla-Manosalva
    • Santiago Guadarrama
    • Lennis Jazmin Bedoya-Muñoz
    • Sara Giraldo-Moreno
    • Laura Cuellar-Valencia
    • María Fernanda Iriarte-Aristizábal
    • Marta Ximena León
    • Fernan Alejandro Mendoza-Montenegro
    • Juan Esteban Correa-Morales

  • PubMed: 39155056
  • DOI: 10.1111/sdi.13223

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Muscle Cramp Frequency

  • High evidence

  Vitamins C and E are the two most studied interventions that showed positive results in reducing the frequency, severity, and duration of dialysis-related muscle cramps.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  not specified