Selenium and Improved Antioxidant Capacity

• The effects of selenium supplementation on cardiovascular risk factors in patients with metabolic diseases ‒ A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

  • 2026-06-01
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 656
  • Nutricion hospitalaria 43(3)
  • • Weixiu Qiu
    • Na Huang
    • Kexin Zhang
    • Hongyan Qiu
    • Zhentao Guo
    • Fang Han
    • Xiaodong Sun
    • Ningning Hou
    • Chengxia Kan

  • PubMed: 41738711
  • DOI: 10.20960/nh.05977

  16 Insights on

  • Improved Antioxidant Capacity

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  dietary selenium significantly ... increased total antioxidant capacity (p = 0.04)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  dietary selenium (supplements)

• Selenium status and supplementation in thyroid disorders: A narrative review of current evidence.

  • 2025-12
  • Review
  • Journal of trace elements in medicine and biology : organ of the Society for Minerals and Trace Elements (GMS) 92
  • • Ye Htut Linn
    • Sohail Aziz
    • Shiueh Lian Mok

  • PubMed: 41206976
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jtemb.2025.127799

  5 Insights on

  • Improved Antioxidant Capacity

  • Low evidence

  In GD and GO, Se supplementation, especially when combined with methimazole, has been shown to enhance hormone normalization and antioxidant capacity, although results vary across studies.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  not specified