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Inflammation and oxidative stress

Copperand Oxidative stress (F2-isoprostanes)

Only one source here so far, and it measured lower oxidative stress (F2-isoprostanes).

How sure anyone can be

Very low certainty, level 1 of 4

Any estimate here is very uncertain.

The numbers reported

-39 percent change
percent mean decrease in plasma F2alpha-isoprostanes from baseline

None of these sources gave a likely range — the band the real answer probably sits in — so how precise these numbers are is still an open question here.

One source, newest first

What we read is the published abstract, not the full paper, so a blank below may still be printed in the paper itself. A fixed rule worked this out from the source’s own fields. Nobody checked this rating by hand.

  • Another kind of study, 2010 · 8 participants

    Very low certainty, level 1 of 4

    A pilot study of copper supplementation effects on plasma F2alpha isoprostanes and urinary collagen crosslinks in young adult women.

    J Trace Elem Med Biol. 2010;24(3):165-8. doi:10.1016/j.jtemb.2010.02.003. PMID:20569928.

    Number reported
    -39 percent change
    Which way it went
    Lower
    Likely range
    Not in the abstract
    Source’s own words
    percent mean decrease in plasma F2alpha-isoprostanes from baseline
    Who was studied
    Adult female
    Compared with
    placebo
    Amount taken
    2 mg/d copper as copper glycinate
    For how long
    56 days
    Disagreement between studies
    Not in the abstract
    Kind of record
    Journal article
    How this rating was reachedstarts at Low, 2 steps down: risk of bias and imprecision
    1. Starts at Low
    2. Risk of bias brought it down to Very lowthe abstract reports no risk-of-bias or quality appraisal, so study limitations cannot be ruled outNot in the abstract
    3. Imprecision — already at Very low, the lowest rungthe abstract reports no confidence interval for the estimateNot in the abstract
    4. Ends at Very low2 steps down.
    Checked, nothing to step it down for
    indirectness
    Inconsistency
    No disagreement reported, and no count of studies behind it

    Imprecision stops at the first check that applies; others may apply too.

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    Read the abstract on PubMed

What is still missing from these readings

  • One gives no likely range, so how precise that number is is unknown.

Something nobody wrote down is never a zero and never a guess.

Still to read for Copper

Eight of the 16 things on our list for Copper have no reading here yet:

  • HDL cholesterol
  • Hematocrit
  • Hemoglobin
  • Neutrophils, Absolute
  • Serum iron
  • Symptom Radar (Sickness Detection)
  • Triglycerides
  • White blood cell count

Still to read means nobody here has got to it, not that it was tried and did nothing or that no research exists. A pairing on no list is not a gap: we never set out to read it.

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