Taurine and Reduced Interleukin-6 Levels

• Efficacy of taurine-enhanced enteral nutrition in improving the outcomes of critically ill patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2024-06
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 236
  • Clinical nutrition ESPEN 61
  • • Chi Zhang
    • Ming-Wei Sun
    • Guang-Yu Yang
    • Yu Wang
    • Charles Damien Lu
    • Hua Jiang

  • PubMed: 38777434
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2024.03.012

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Interleukin-6 Levels

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Taurine-enhanced EN may reduce pro-inflammatory factor interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels in critically ill patients（the result about IL-6 cannot be pooled）.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small