Protein and Reduced Medical Complications

• Effects of supplemental protein in older people: an overview of meta-analyses.

  • 2025-11-01
  • Systematic Review
  • Age and ageing 54(12)
  • • Akanu Abass Obasi
    • Adam Lee Gordon
    • Kenneth Smith
    • Kenneth Smith
    • Jemima T Collins
    • Beth E Phillips
    • Abdullah G Alqarni
    • Ying Sun
    • Tahir Masud
    • John R F Gladman

  • PubMed: 41385355
  • DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afaf351

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Medical Complications

  • High evidence
  • Elderly

  Evidence suggests that protein supplementation in hospital patients with hip fractures reduced the number of medical complications.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes