Addition of Micronutrient supplements to nutritional therapy of no benefit to malnourished patients: Study
Switzerland: A recent study published in Nature's European Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that nutritional support reduces mortality and improves other clinical outcomes in malnourished medical inpatients. However, there was no evidence that trials using micronutrient supplementation in addition to nutritional therapy were superior to those with no supplementation. This implies the need for further research on the role of micronutrient supplementation in addition to nutritional support.
There is enough evidence from randomized controlled trials that have shown that different types of nutritional support interventions improve clinical outcomes in malnourished medical inpatients. However, it is unclear whether trials using micronutrient supplementation in addition to nutritional therapy are superior to trials without micronutrient supplementation. To clarify the same, Philipp Schuetz and the team from Switzerland performed a secondary analysis of a systematic search and meta-analysis.
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