Antioxidant supplements for liver diseases

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Bjelakovic, Goran ^a   Nikolova, Dimitrinka ^a   Gluud, Lise Lotte ^a   Bjelakovic, Marija ^b   Nagorni, Aleksandar ^b   Gluud, Christian ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ATENOLOL; BETA CAROTENE; RETINOL; SELENIUM; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LIVER CANCER; LIVER DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 70349159521     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007749     Document Type: Review

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