Whey Protein and Reduced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Test Score

• The effects of various nutritional supplements in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a network meta-analysis.

  • 2025-05-08
  • Systematic Review
  • BMC pulmonary medicine 25(1)
  • • Jia Zeng
    • Jing Cheng
    • Liangdong Zhu
    • Sufang Tang

  • PubMed: 40340688
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12890-025-03667-0

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Assessment Test Score

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Whey proteins [MD = -0.70, 95% CrI (-0.99, -0.41)] reduced COPD Assessment Test (CAT) scores.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes