Zinc and Reduced Alanine Aminotransferase Level

• Zinc supplementation in liver cirrhosis: meta-analysis of its effect on biochemical and clinical outcomes.

  • 2026-01-13
  • Systematic Review · n = 338
  • BMC nutrition 12(1)
  • • Yifan Gong
    • Zhenni Yang
    • Guofu Sun
    • Xiaoyan Xue
    • Xuqian Zhang

  • PubMed: 41527112
  • DOI: 10.1186/s40795-025-01239-3

  5 Insights on

  • Reduced Alanine Aminotransferase Level

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Zinc supplementation also improved（alanine aminotransferase）ALT content (WMD=−8.83, 95% CI [−15.47, −2.19], P=0.009)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  varied across studies