Selenium and Reduced Intensive Care Unit Mortality

• Impact of selenium status and supplementation on outcomes in critically ill patients.

  • 2025-10-10
  • Observational · n = 67
  • Scientific reports 15(1)
  • • Hung-Hsi Tan
    • You-Cyuan Liang
    • Yi-Chen Shao
    • Chin-Ming Chen
    • Willy Chou

  • PubMed: 41073464
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-19315-w

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  • Reduced Intensive Care Unit Mortality

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Clinical

  Among 67 patients receiving supplementation, those with a post-treatment selenium increase > 50 µg/L had significantly lower ICU mortality.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  1000 µg/day for 5 days