Taurine and Reduced Systolic Blood Pressure

• Taurine reduces the risk for metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

  • 2024-05-16
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 1,024
  • Nutrition & diabetes 14(1)
  • • Chih-Chen Tzang
    • Liang-Yun Chi
    • Long-Huei Lin
    • Ting-Yu Lin
    • Ke-Vin Chang
    • Wei-Ting Wu
    • Levent Özçakar

  • PubMed: 38755142
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41387-024-00289-z

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced Systolic Blood Pressure

  • High evidence

  taurine supplementation demonstrated statistically significant reductions in SBP (weighted mean difference [WMD] = -3.999 mmHg, 95% confidence interval [CI] = -7.293 to -0.706, p = 0.017)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  0.5 g/day to 6 g/day