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Nutritional supplements for patients being treated for active visceral leishmaniasis

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, March 2018
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Title
Nutritional supplements for patients being treated for active visceral leishmaniasis
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, March 2018
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd012261.pub2
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Estefanía Custodio, Jesús López‐Alcalde, Mercè Herrero, Carmen Bouza, Carolina Jimenez, Stefan Storcksdieck genannt Bonsmann, Theodora Mouratidou, Teresa López‐Cuadrado, Agustin Benito, Jorge Alvar

Abstract

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a disease caused by a parasite, which can lead to death if untreated. Poor nutritional status hastens the progression of VL infection, and VL worsens malnutrition status. Malnutrition is one of the poor prognostic factors identified for leishmaniasis. However, the effects of nutritional supplementation in people treated for VL are not known. To assess the effects of oral nutritional supplements in people being treated with anti-leishmanial drug therapy for VL. We searched the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (CIDG) Specialized Register, CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase, LILACS, and two trial registers up to 12 September 2017. We checked conference proceedings and WHO consultative meeting reports, the reference lists of key documents and existing reviews, and contacted experts and nutritional supplement companies. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs), quasi-randomized controlled trials (quasi-RCTs), and non-randomized controlled trials (NRCTs) of any oral nutritional supplement, compared to no nutritional intervention, placebo, or dietary advice alone, in people being treated for VL. Two review authors independently screened the literature search results for studies that met the inclusion criteria. We had planned for two review authors to independently extract data and assess the risk of bias of the included studies. We planned to follow the Cochrane standard methodological procedures for assessing risk of bias and analysing the data. We identified no eligible studies for this review, either completed or ongoing. We found no studies, either completed or ongoing, that assessed the effects of oral nutritional supplements in people with VL who were being treated with anti-leishmanial drug therapy. Thus, we could not draw any conclusions on the impact of these interventions on primary cure of VL, definitive cure of VL, treatment completion, self-reported recovery from illness or resolution of symptoms, weight gain, increased skinfold thickness, other measures of lean or total mass, or growth in children.This absence of evidence should not be interpreted as evidence of no effect for nutritional supplements in people under VL treatment. It means that we did not identify research that fulfilled our review inclusion criteria.The effects of oral nutritional supplements in people with VL who are being treated with anti-leishmanial drug therapy have yet to be determined by rigorous experimental studies, such as cluster-randomized trials, that focus on outcomes relevant for patients.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 202 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 26 13%
Student > Bachelor 22 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 9%
Researcher 15 7%
Student > Postgraduate 11 5%
Other 31 15%
Unknown 78 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 41 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 12%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 6 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 2%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 2%
Other 30 15%
Unknown 91 45%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 July 2020.
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#2,531,723
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#5,094
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#52,160
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Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
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