L-Carnitine and Reduced One-Year Mortality

• The Effect of L-Carnitine on Mortality Rate in Septic Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Randomized Clinical Trials.

  • 2021-04
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Endocrine, metabolic & immune disorders drug targets 21(4)
  • • Hamed Abdollahi
    • Mina Abdolahi
    • Mohsen Sedighiyan
    • Arash Jafarieh

  • PubMed: 32718301
  • DOI: 10.2174/1871530320666200727150450

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced One-Year Mortality

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  L-carnitine supplementation reduce one-year mortality in septic patients with SOFA> 12 (RR: 0.68; 95% CI: 0.49 to 0.96; P= 0.03)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  not specified