Papaya and Reduced Hospital Stay Duration

• Carica papaya extract in dengue: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2019-10-11
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 580
  • BMC complementary and alternative medicine 19(1)
  • • Senaka Rajapakse
    • Nipun Lakshitha de Silva
    • Praveen Weeratunga
    • Chaturaka Rodrigo
    • Chathurani Sigera
    • Sumadhya Deepika Fernando

  • PubMed: 31601215
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12906-019-2678-2

  5 Insights on

  • Reduced Hospital Stay Duration

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  CP extract may reduce the duration of hospital stay (mean difference - 1.98 days, 95% confidence interval - 1.83 to - 2.12, 3 studies, 580 participants, low quality evidence)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes