Evaluation of the recovery after heart surgery following preoperative supplementation with a combination of beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate, L-arginine, and L-glutamine: a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial.
- 2022-08-13
- RCT · n = 70
- Trials 23(1)
- Mona Norouzi
- Azadeh Nadjarzadeh
- Majid Maleki
- Sayyed Saeid Khayyatzadeh
- Saeid Hosseini
- Mehdi Yaseri
- Hamed Fattahi
- PubMed: 35964137
- DOI: 10.1186/s13063-022-06621-1
- High evidence
- Clinical
Subjects in the Gln/Arg/HMB group had lower serum levels of ... bilirubin (median [IQR] = 0.50 [0.20] vs. 0.40 [0.22]; P < 0.001)
- Effect
- Beneficial
- Effect size
- Moderate
- Significant
- Yes
- Dose
- 7 g daily