Things to Know
Also Known As
Renal function
Kidney Function
Kidney function tends to refer to a series of urinary or serum biomarkers that are thought to accurately assess kidney health, and supplements that change these biomarkers in a positive direction are thought to aid in kidney function.
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Human Effect Matrix
The Human Effect Matrix looks at human studies (it excludes animal and in vitro studies) to tell you what supplements affect kidney function
| Grade | Level of Evidence |
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| Robust research conducted with repeated double-blind clinical trials | |
| Multiple studies where at least two are double-blind and placebo controlled | |
| Single double-blind study or multiple cohort studies | |
| Uncontrolled or observational studies only |
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Level of Evidence ?
The amount of high quality evidence. The more evidence, the more we can trust the results.
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Outcome |
Magnitude of effect ?
The direction and size of the supplement's impact on each outcome. Some supplements can have an increasing effect, others have a decreasing effect, and others have no effect.
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Consistency of research results ?
Scientific research does not always agree. HIGH or VERY HIGH means that most of the scientific research agrees.
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Notes |
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| Creatine |
All comparative evidence is now gathered in our A-to-Z Supplement Reference. The evidence for each separate supplement is still freely available here. |
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| Curcumin | ||||
| Astaxanthin | ||||
| Benfotiamine | ||||
| Chromium | ||||
| Cordyceps | ||||
| Lactobacillus reuteri | ||||
| Trimethylglycine | ||||
| Vitamin E | ||||
| Astragalus membranaceus | ||||
| Conjugated Linoleic Acid | ||||
| Tetradecyl Thioacetic Acid | ||||
Cite this page
"Kidney Function," Examine.com, published on 5 July 2013, last updated on 29 April 2017, https://examine.com/topics/kidney-function/