Evidence is stronger than you think: a meta-analysis of vitamin C use in patients with sepsis

Two recent publications by Sheikh and Horner and Teng et al. reviewed studies on incorporating vitamin C to treat septic patients; however, a meta-analysis was not offered in either report. This commentary extends both reviews by integrating a meta-analysis and sharing aggregated results. Pooled ana...

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Autor principal: Li, Jing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30305111
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-018-2191-x
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description Two recent publications by Sheikh and Horner and Teng et al. reviewed studies on incorporating vitamin C to treat septic patients; however, a meta-analysis was not offered in either report. This commentary extends both reviews by integrating a meta-analysis and sharing aggregated results. Pooled analyses demonstrated a marked reduction in mortality and duration of vasopressor administration in the group with the use of vitamin C.
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spelling pubmed-61805242018-10-18 Evidence is stronger than you think: a meta-analysis of vitamin C use in patients with sepsis Li, Jing Crit Care Commentary Two recent publications by Sheikh and Horner and Teng et al. reviewed studies on incorporating vitamin C to treat septic patients; however, a meta-analysis was not offered in either report. This commentary extends both reviews by integrating a meta-analysis and sharing aggregated results. Pooled analyses demonstrated a marked reduction in mortality and duration of vasopressor administration in the group with the use of vitamin C. BioMed Central 2018-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6180524/ /pubmed/30305111 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-018-2191-x Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Evidence is stronger than you think: a meta-analysis of vitamin C use in patients with sepsis
title Evidence is stronger than you think: a meta-analysis of vitamin C use in patients with sepsis
title_full Evidence is stronger than you think: a meta-analysis of vitamin C use in patients with sepsis
title_fullStr Evidence is stronger than you think: a meta-analysis of vitamin C use in patients with sepsis
title_full_unstemmed Evidence is stronger than you think: a meta-analysis of vitamin C use in patients with sepsis
title_short Evidence is stronger than you think: a meta-analysis of vitamin C use in patients with sepsis
title_sort evidence is stronger than you think: a meta-analysis of vitamin c use in patients with sepsis
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30305111
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-018-2191-x
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