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The effectiveness of a specialised oral nutrition supplement on outcomes in patients with chronic wounds: a pragmatic randomised study.
Plain-language guide to PMID 23627791 (2013): randomized controlled trial of Zinc.
Key Facts
- PMID
- 23627791
- Journal
- Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association
- Year
- 2013
- Study type
- Randomized Controlled Trial
- Authors
- Bauer JD et al. (3 authors)
- DOI
- 10.1111/jhn.12084
What This Study Did, in Plain Language
What Was Tested
This randomized controlled trial looks at Zinc.
Linear mixed effects modelling with random intercepts and slopes were fitted to determine whether the wound-specific nutritional supplement had any effect.
Why It Was Studied
The present pragmatic, randomised, prospective open trial evaluated a wound-specific oral nutrition supplement enriched with arginine, vitamin C and zinc compared to a standard supplement with respect to outcomes in patients with chronic wounds in an acute care setting.
Who Took Part
The age groups tagged for this paper are middle-aged adults, older adults and people over 80, both men and women.
How the Study Was Run
The design is described as randomized.
Random assignment meant chance, not the researchers, decided who got Zinc and who got the comparison, which limits bias.
At baseline, and at 4 and 8 weeks, the rate of wound-healing, nutritional status, protein and energy intake, quality of life and product satisfaction were measured.
What Was Measured
The present pragmatic, randomised, prospective open trial evaluated a wound-specific oral nutrition supplement enriched with arginine, vitamin C and zinc compared to a standard supplement with respect to outcomes in patients with chronic wounds in an acute care setting.
Topics PubMed links to this paper include Ascorbic Acid, Chronic Disease, Dietary Proteins, Dietary Supplements, Energy Intake, Nutrition Therapy and Nutritional Status.
The authors tagged it with the keywords nutrition counselling, nutrition supplements, nutrition support, outcomes and wounds.
What This Means in Plain Language
The paper is a randomized study of Zinc.
Results are reported in around 2 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.
The publication is from 2013 (Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association), a journal based in England.
More context: all human trials.
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Source: PubMed record. This explanation is written by PeptideWhiz from the public record. For research and education only. Not medical advice; no dosing information is given.