Salacia and Reduced Interleukin-6 Levels

• Effects of Salacia oblonga on cardiovascular risk factors in chronic kidney disease patients: a prospective study.

  • 2015
  • RCT
  • Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation : an official publication of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia 26(1)
  • • Rana Gopal Singh
    • Surendra Singh Rathore
    • Imtiyaz Ahmad Wani
    • Aruna Agrawal
    • Govind Prasad Dubey

  • PubMed: 25579717
  • DOI: 10.4103/1319-2442.148736

  5 Insights on

  • Reduced Interleukin-6 Levels

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  while significant reduction in IL-6 (P-value = 0.0003) and serum cholesterol levels (P-value = 0.0001) was seen only in diabetic CKD patients treated with Salacia oblonga.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No