Vitamin E supplementation in people with cystic fibrosis.

CONCLUSIONS: Vitamin E supplementation led to an improvement in vitamin E levels in people with cystic fibrosis, although the studies may have been at risk of bias. No data on other outcomes of interest were available to allow conclusions about any other benefits of this therapy.In future, larger studies are needed, especially in people already being treated with enteric-coated pancreatic enzymes and supplemented with vitamin E, to look at more specific outcome measures such as vitamin E status, lung function and nutritional status. Future studies could also look at the optimal dose of vitamin E required to achieve maximal clinical effectiveness.
PMID: 28262916 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - March 5, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Okebukola PO, Kansra S, Barrett J Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research