Selenium and Reduced Medication Requirement

• Adding L-Carnitine and Selenium to Methimazole in Graves' Disease: A Prospective Randomized Trial on Thyroid Markers and Quality of Life.

  • 2025-08-20
  • RCT · n = 60
  • Nutrients 17(16)
  • • Mattia Rossi
    • Letizia Meomartino
    • Marco Zavattaro
    • Gloria Selvatico
    • Ruth Rossetto Giaccherino
    • Loredana Pagano

  • PubMed: 40871722
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu17162693

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  • Reduced Medication Requirement

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Clinical

  MMI requirements were consistently lower in the Intervention Group, both in average dosage (p = 0.013) and cumulative dose (p = 0.020)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  not stated