L-Threonine and Reduced Pressure Ulcer Area

• Essential amino acid supplementation for pressure ulcers: pathophysiological rationale and results from a pilot study.

  • 2025-11-14
  • Clinical Trial
  • Amino acids 57(1)
  • • Maciej Świątkiewicz
    • Andrzej Lejczak
    • Piotr Foltyński
    • Paweł Grieb

  • PubMed: 41236568
  • DOI: 10.1007/s00726-025-03489-8

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Pressure Ulcer Area

  • Moderate evidence
  • Clinical

  After six weeks patients receiving daily doses of the aforementioned food composition, compared to control patients, displayed statistically significant reduction of the pressure ulcer area.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes