{"id":218,"date":"2022-09-13T10:54:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/zinc-decreases-inflammatory-response\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:54:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:54:35","slug":"zinc-decreases-inflammatory-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/zinc-decreases-inflammatory-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Zinc decreases inflammatory response"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This study evaluated the effects of zinc supplementation on inflammation in sickle-cell disease (SCD), a disorder of red blood cells. 36 SCD patients were given either 25 mg zinc three times a day for 3 months or a placebo. Zinc-supplemented patients showed a significant decrease in inflammation. These results suggested that zinc supplementation reduced the inflammatory status in SCD patients. More details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Bin Bao,\u00a0Ananda S Prasad,\u00a0Frances W J Beck,\u00a0Diane Snell,\u00a0Anupam Suneja,\u00a0Fazlul H Sarkar,\u00a0Nimisha Doshi,\u00a0James T Fitzgerald,\u00a0Paul Swerdlow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18674741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This study evaluated the effects of zinc supplementation on inflammation in sickle-cell disease (SCD), a disorder of red blood cells. 36 SCD patients were given either 25 mg zinc three times a day for 3 months or a placebo. Zinc-supplemented patients showed a significant decrease in inflammation. These results suggested that zinc supplementation reduced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[755,745,747,751,752,754,746,750,748,749,753],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5972,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/5972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}