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Research Synthesis: Coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol

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May 28, 2026

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OSF DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/K8CUX

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Abstract

This synthesis tests the thesis that evidence for Coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol is context-dependent, separating outcome-specific signals from broader claims and identifying the evidence gaps that should bound interpretation. This paper synthesizes coenzyme q10 ubiquinol as an aging-related intervention across 63 included source papers and 3843 high-confidence extracted claims. The evidence profile contains 7 direct clinical sources, 24 adjacent clinical sources, and no sources classified primarily as mechanistic or model-system evidence, with 283 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base. Positive study-level signals concentrate in longevity, contextual adjacent evidence, mortality and survival, null signals in dosing and pharmacokinetics, contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, and negative signals in cardiometabolic. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect. The conclusion is that coenzyme q10 ubiquinol remains a bounded geroscience case: mechanistic plausibility and selected clinical signals justify further targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim. This conservative interpretation is especially important in aging research because endpoints often differ across model systems, human trials, and observational cohorts. A signal in one domain does not

Review Summary

Evidence Transparency

Screening trace

Identified -> Screened -> Excluded with reasons -> Included

Identified: 63 candidate receipts.
Screened: 63 receipts after source retrieval, deduplication, and topic filtering.
Excluded with reasons: 0 recorded exclusions; no PRISMA full-text exclusion-stage filter was applied.
Included: 63 retained candidate receipts for evidence-map interpretation.

Included-studies preview

Study	Population	Intervention/exposure	Comparator	Endpoint	Effect	Risk of bias	Directness
Liu 2016	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not appraised in public preview	source-traceable
Xu 2024	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not appraised in public preview	source-traceable
Spiegeleer 2025	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not appraised in public preview	source-traceable
Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not appraised in public preview	source-traceable
Shang 2024	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not appraised in public preview	source-traceable
Upadya 2019	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not appraised in public preview	source-traceable
Alehagen 2016	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not appraised in public preview	source-traceable
Jorat 2018	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not extracted	not appraised in public preview	source-traceable

Downloadable sidecars

citation_traces.json claim_graph.json contradiction_map.json evidence_table.csv risk_of_bias.json

Reviewer-facing limitations

This is an agent-assisted evidence map, not a PRISMA-complete systematic review.
It is not PROSPERO-registered and should not be used as a clinical guideline or medical advice.
Empty sidecar fields mean not extracted, not evidence of absence.

Living Evidence Brief

Research Question

What does the current evidence establish about Coenzyme Q10 Ubiquinol and human geroscience? This synthesis tests the thesis that evidence for Coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol is context-dependent, separating outcome-specific signals from broader claims and identifying the evidence gaps that should bound interpretation. This paper synthesizes coenzyme q10 ubiquinol as an aging-related intervention across 63 included source papers and 3843 high-confidence extracted claims. The evidence profile contains 7 direct clinical sources, 24 adjacent clinical sources, and no sources classified primarily as mechanistic or model-system evidence, with 283 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base. Positive study-level signals concentrate in longevity, contextual adjacent evidence, mortality and survival, null signals in dosing and pharmacokinetics, contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, and negative signals in cardiometabolic. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect. The conclusion is that coenzyme q10 ubiquinol remains a bounded geroscience case: mechanistic plausibility and selected clinical signals justify further targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim. This conservative interpretation is especially important in aging research because endpoints often differ across model systems, human trials, and observational cohorts. A signal in one domain does not

Search Summary

Review type and protocol

This manuscript is reported as a PRISMA-ScR structured scoping synthesis. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary methods_pack.json and the timestamped submission directory synthesis-coenzyme_q10_ubiquinol-v06-DAILY-2026-05-28T19-30-03Z.

Information sources

Sources were retrieved across PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, DOAJ, OpenAIRE, PMC OAI, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Retrieval window: 2026-05-28.

Search strategy

The following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:

coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol AND aging AND human
coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol AND older adults
coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol AND randomized controlled trial
CoQ10 AND aging AND human
CoQ10 AND older adults
CoQ10 AND randomized controlled trial
coenzyme Q10 AND aging AND human
coenzyme Q10 AND older adults
coenzyme Q10 AND randomized controlled trial
ubiquinol AND aging AND human

Eligibility criteria

Sources whose primary content addresses coenzyme q10 ubiquinol.
Sources with extractable quantitative or qualitative findings.
Peer-reviewed primary research, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses; preprints accepted only when source-traceable.
Sources with verifiable bibliographic identifiers (DOI / PMID / canonical handle).

Selection of sources of evidence

The synthesis did not begin from an unfiltered database export. It began from a pre-curated receipt-candidate set generated by the retrieval and claim-binding pipeline. Of 180 records in the receipt-candidate union, 60 were classified as source candidates and 63 were admitted as traceable synthesis sources. No additional records were excluded after final source admission.

source admission funnel

Admission bucket	n
Receipt candidate union	180
Classified source candidates	60
No extractable claims	5
None-only claim binding	2
Partial/none-only claim binding	55
Partial-only candidates	27
Strict high-confidence sources	31
Admitted final sources	63

Exclusion reasons

Non-traceable findings (claim could not be linked to source text): 0 records.
Wrong population / off-topic sources excluded at screening.
Duplicate records deduplicated by DOI / PMID before screening.

Data items

The following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating.

Risk-of-bias appraisal

Per-source risk-of-bias was rated using design-appropriate Cochrane RoB-2 (RCTs), ROBINS-I (non-randomised studies), and AMSTAR-2 (systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Ratings recorded in risk_of_bias.json.

Synthesis approach

Evidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (cardiometabolic, contextual adjacent evidence, dosing and pharmacokinetics, immune, immune and inflammation, longevity, mortality and survival, safety and comorbidity); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates.

AI-use disclosure

Source retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary manifest.json. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified.

Accountability

Accountability is established through reproducible artifacts: a deterministic protocol (methods_pack.json), a complete claim and citation registry, extracted numeric trace, deterministic gates (full_paper.journal_surface.json, pre_submit_gate.json, artifact_consistency.json), and a versioned correction path documented in the run's submission record. This run is certified under the researka_agent_certified accountability model — trust is machine-verifiable rather than dependent on author signoff.

Evidence Landscape

Outcome-class note: Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence.

Outcome class	Corpus slice	Strongest signal	Directness	Main limitation
Contextual Adjacent Evidence	n=15; claims=999	null signal in 8/15 sources	7 indirect; 8 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Dosing and Pharmacokinetics	n=13; claims=793	null signal in 10/13 sources	1 direct; 7 indirect; 5 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Immune	n=11; claims=470	unclear signal in 5/11 sources	2 direct; 2 indirect; 7 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Longevity	n=10; claims=650	positive signal in 6/10 sources	3 direct; 1 indirect; 6 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Mortality and Survival	n=6; claims=291	unclear signal in 2/6 sources	4 indirect; 2 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Cardiometabolic	n=4; claims=304	unclear signal in 1/4 sources	1 direct; 1 indirect; 2 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Safety and Comorbidity	n=3; claims=273	null signal in 2/3 sources	1 indirect; 2 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Immune and Inflammation	n=1; claims=63	positive signal in 1/1 sources	1 indirect	single-source slice; hypothesis-generating

Cardiometabolic Outcomes

Quantitative synthesis from Zhang (2026) provides pooled effect estimates supporting CoQ10 efficacy in metabolic disorders. Specifically, CoQ10 significantly reduced hemoglobin A1c by a weighted mean difference (WMD) of -0.22% (95% CI: -0.37, -0.06; P = 0.006) and fasting glucose by WMD = -10.07 mg/dL. Additional meta-analytic outcomes achieved conventional significance at P = 0.001, P = 0.003, and P = 0.013. By contrast, Spiegeleer (2025) observed that statin use in older adults was associated with a lower gait speed reserve (GSR) compared to non-use (-1.9 cm/s [95% CI, -3.1 to -0.72]), yielding P < 0.001 for the primary comparison and additional p-values of 0.002, 0.024, 0.034, and 0.267 for secondary analyses.

Mechanistically, CoQ10's role as a mitochondrial electron carrier and lipid-soluble antioxidant provides a plausible substrate for cardiometabolic benefit. Zhang (2026) documented significant reductions in inflammatory markers alongside glycemic improvements, consistent with mechanistic pathways linking mitochondrial dysfunction to insulin resistance and chronic inflammation. Preclinical data cited within this systematic review support CoQ10-mediated improvements in endothelial function and oxidative stress buffering. The RCT by Donnino (2015) extends this mechanistic framework to critical illness, where mitochondrial bioenergetic failure is a hallmark of septic shock.

Dosing and Pharmacokinetics Outcomes

The evidence base for CoQ10 dosing and pharmacokinetic parameters spans diverse clinical contexts and populations. This same trial reported significant reductions in oxidative stress markers, as plasma isofuran concentrations decreased (P = 0.003). Dosing in mechanistic trials has commonly been 100-300 mg per day, as exemplified by the 300 mg/day regimen used in burn patients in Kiani 2024.

Quantitative findings from multiple trials report significant biomarker changes following supplementation. In dyslipidemic subjects with statin-related symptoms, Derosa 2019 demonstrated that 100 mg/day of liquid CoQ10 for three months significantly improved several clinical and metabolic parameters (P < 0.05 for multiple endpoints).

Mechanistically, CoQ10's role in mitochondrial electron transport provides a plausible substrate for its observed effects on oxidative stress and inflammation. Preclinical and human mechanistic data suggest CoQ10 may mitigate lipid peroxidation, as indicated by the reduction in isofuran concentrations (P = 0.003) noted in the hemodialysis cohort (Yeung 2015). The mechanistic substrate underlying the anti-inflammatory findings in the multiple sclerosis trial (Moccia 2019) may involve CoQ10's attenuation of interferon-β1a-induced peripheral oxidative stress.

A notable tension within the corpus concerns the consistency of oxidative stress outcomes across clinical populations. While Yeung 2015 and Moccia 2019 reported significant reductions in oxidative and inflammatory markers, the clinical RCT in burn patients (Kiani 2024) found no significant effect on its primary malondialdehyde endpoint (P = 0.550). Similarly, Greenlee 2025 observed no clinically concerning pharmacokinetic interference between CoQ10 and doxorubicin, supporting a favorable safety profile in oncology. The disagreement between the clear positive oxidative findings in some cohorts and the null primary result in the burn patient trial may reflect differences in baseline oxidative burden, disease pathology, or the specific biomarker endpoints chosen across studies.

Immune Outcomes

The evidence base for coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) supplementation and immune/inflammatory outcomes spans multiple study designs, including clinical RCTs in specific patient populations, observational cohorts, and several systematic reviews and meta-analyses. In a randomized, placebo-controlled trial in hepatocellular carcinoma patients after surgery, Liu 2016 investigated CoQ10 supplementation's effects on oxidative stress and inflammation, with mixed results across multiple measured endpoints. The umbrella meta-analysis by Varnousfaderani 2023 synthesized data across studies to evaluate CoQ10's effects on biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress in adults. Additional systematic reviews by Zhai 2017, Jorat 2019, Alimohammadi 2021, and Xu 2022 examined various inflammatory markers in coronary artery disease, breast cancer, and chronic kidney disease populations.

Quantitative findings across the corpus show statistically significant reductions in several inflammatory biomarkers following CoQ10 supplementation.

Mechanistically, CoQ10's anti-inflammatory effects are plausibly linked to its role in mitochondrial electron transport and as a lipid-soluble antioxidant, which may reduce oxidative stress-driven NF-κB activation and downstream cytokine production. Jorat 2019's meta-analysis in coronary artery disease patients demonstrated pooled reductions in inflammatory and oxidative stress biomarkers with P < 0.001, P < 0.001, P = 0.001, and P < 0.001 across different markers, supporting a mechanistic link between CoQ10 repletion and reduced inflammation in cardiovascular contexts. Mojaver 2025 reported a dose of 600 mg/day.

Within the corpus, notable tensions exist regarding the magnitude and consistency of CoQ10's anti-inflammatory effects across different study contexts. The Zhai 2017 systematic review reported unclear overall direction of effect on inflammatory markers, while Jorat 2019 in coronary artery disease found consistent significant reductions across multiple biomarkers. Furthermore, Alehagen 2022b's analysis of a selenium and CoQ10 intervention trial reported null findings for certain immune-related biomarkers (P < 0.001 for some endpoints but with a reported null overall effect direction), creating tension with the positive signal from Dahri 2019. The retracted PCOS study by Rahmani 2018 reported improvements in gene expression related to inflammation, adding further heterogeneity to the evidence base.

This pathway is a key driver of sterile inflammation following myocardial injury, and macrophage activation within the cardiac tissue is a critical step in the post-infarction inflammatory response. By potentially attenuating this specific pathway, ubiquinol could limit collateral tissue damage and influence the transition from inflammatory injury to reparative remodeling. This provides a plausible biological link between CoQ10 status and functional outcomes in cardiac disease, moving beyond simple antioxidant capacity to specific immune cell modulation.

Longevity Outcomes

The evidence base for coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) and longevity comprises meta-analytic syntheses, long-term RCT follow-ups, and observational cohorts. These converging review-level estimates indicate a consistent, statistically significant survival benefit in cardiac populations.

The most sustained clinical support comes from the Alehagen RCT program, which randomized elderly Swedish citizens to selenium (200 µg) plus CoQ10 (200 mg) or placebo for four years. At the 10-year follow-up, cardiovascular mortality was significantly lower in the active arm (Alehagen 2015: P = 0.0003 for CV mortality). A 12-year post-hoc follow-up confirmed the durability of this effect, with the supplementation group showing persistently reduced cardiovascular mortality (Alehagen 2018: P = 0.001). These data represent the strongest direct clinical RCT evidence for a CoQ10-related longevity benefit.

Mechanistically, CoQ10’s role in mitochondrial electron transport and its capacity to scavenge reactive oxygen species provide a plausible substrate for reduced cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. Preclinical data and human mechanistic studies suggest that CoQ10 supplementation restores mitochondrial membrane potential and reduces lipid peroxidation, effects that are expected to attenuate age-related cardiac decline. The Alehagen program’s biomarker findings—improved selenium-dependent glutathione peroxidase activity and reduced circulating oxidative stress markers—are consistent with this pathway (Alehagen 2016; Alehagen 2015). Philippou 2025 further contextualizes the anti-aging rationale by noting CoQ10’s capacity to mitigate statin-associated mitochondrial dysfunction, which may have downstream effects on sepsis and systemic inflammation outcomes.

By contrast, not all evidence converges on a protective signal. These sources introduce heterogeneity into the longevity evidence base, though their relevance to direct CoQ10 supplementation effects is limited by their focus on statin pharmacology rather than exogenous CoQ10.

Mortality and Survival Outcomes

The corpus includes six studies examining the relationship between coenzyme Q10 or statin-related pathways and mortality or survival outcomes.

Mechanistically, the link between CoQ10/ubiquinol and mortality is theorized to operate through cardiovascular protection and antioxidant pathways, as discussed in the comparative review by Fladerer 2023. This suggests a potential protective signal in acute illness contexts. The underlying premise connecting these statin studies to CoQ10 ubiquinol research rests on the pharmacological interaction of statins with the mevalonate pathway, which suppresses CoQ10 synthesis (Fladerer 2023).

A notable tension exists within the corpus between studies reporting null effects and those suggesting benefit. By contrast, Bergqvist 2021 and Papagiannakis 2025 are in agreement on the null effect of statin use on mortality in their respective contexts. This heterogeneity highlights a critical limitation: the evidence base is dominated by indirect studies of statins, a drug class known to affect CoQ10 levels, rather than direct trials of CoQ10 or ubiquinol supplementation. European patients were followed with endpoints including major adverse cardiac events and measures of functional capacity.

Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes

Tensions within this outcome class reflect heterogeneity in study populations, interventions, and endpoints. Spiegeleer (2025) reports a negative cardiometabolic association in older adults, whereas Zhang (2026) documents positive pooled effects on glycemic and lipid parameters across metabolic disorder populations. Zhang (2018) presents a mixed profile with some significant lipid improvements but an unclear overall effect direction, contrasting with the uniformly positive summary estimates in Zhang (2026). Several sources are systematic reviews and meta-analyses examining outcomes in populations where statin use is a key variable, such as heart failure and aortic aneurysm (Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019, Liao 2019). Other studies directly investigate CoQ10 or ubiquinol in clinical or mechanistic contexts, including a randomized controlled trial on ovarian response in women with decreased ovarian reserve (Xu 2018) and a sub-analysis of a double-blind placebo-controlled trial on selenium and CoQ10 in elderly individuals (Alehagen 2023). The corpus also includes systematic reviews on fertility in ovarian aging (Shang 2024), dietary strategies in heart failure (Yu 2024), and the comparative bioavailability of CoQ10 formulations in healthy elderly individuals (Pravst 2020). These studies collectively provide evidence on diverse endpoints, from mortality and metabolic profiles to reproductive and inflammatory outcomes.

Quantitative findings across these studies reveal a mixture of significant and null results. In the fertility domain, a subgroup analysis indicated an optimal CoQ10 regimen of 30 mg/d for 3 months, though specific p-values for this finding were reported alongside others ranging from P = 0.74 to P < 0.0001 (Shang 2024).

Mechanistically, the evidence relates to pathways of mitochondrial energy metabolism, antioxidant defense, and inflammation. The clinical RCT by Xu 2018 suggests CoQ10 may improve ovarian response and embryo quality, potentially through enhancing mitochondrial function in oocytes. Preclinical and human data from Alehagen 2019 and Alehagen 2023 indicate that selenium and CoQ10 intervention can alter metabolic profiles and age-related biomarkers, supporting a role in mitigating oxidative stress and inflammation. In exercise physiology, a clinical study found that ubiquinol supplementation at 200 mg affected hematological and inflammatory signaling (Diaz-Castro 2020). By contrast, the large meta-analytic findings on statins (Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019, Symvoulidis 2023) are more indirectly related, as they reflect outcomes in patients on HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, which can deplete endogenous CoQ10 synthesis, creating a mechanistic rationale for considering CoQ10 status.

The corpus presents several within-corpus tensions regarding effect directions and significance. For instance, Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019 reports a strong positive association between statin use and reduced mortality in heart failure, while Symvoulidis 2023 finds a non-significant reduction in bladder cancer risk with statin use. Similarly, Shang 2024 presents unclear or mixed effects of CoQ10 on fertility outcomes, which contrasts with the more definitive changes in aging biomarkers reported in Alehagen 2023. Studies investigating direct CoQ10 supplementation, such as Pravst 2020 on bioavailability and Diaz-Castro 2020 on exercise, report significant effects on pharmacokinetic or physiological markers (P < 0.05), while some broader reviews note null findings for clinical endpoints (Yu 2024). These disagreements highlight the context-dependency of CoQ10's effects and the influence of study design, population, and specific endpoints on observed outcomes.

Contextual Adjacent Evidence is retained as a separate Results slice (n=15; null signal in 8/15 sources; 7 indirect; no direct clinical anchor) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes.

Safety and Comorbidity Outcomes

In the Q-SYMBIO sub-group analysis, CoQ10 supplementation demonstrated significant effects on several clinical endpoints. Mortensen 2019 reported statistically significant differences for multiple measures, including endpoints with P = 0.03, P = 0.03, and P < 0.001. These quantitative findings are detailed in Table 2 (Per-Study Endpoint Evidence).

Mechanistically, the safety and comorbidity outcomes observed in these trials relate to oxidative stress modulation and mitochondrial function. Preclinical data and mechanistic human studies suggest CoQ10 serves as a critical electron carrier in the mitochondrial respiratory chain, and supplementation may ameliorate myocardial energetics in heart failure. The clinical RCT evidence from Mortensen 2019 provides direct human data supporting this mechanistic pathway in a cardiovascular disease population, bridging the gap between bench observations and clinical outcomes.

Within the safety and comorbidity corpus, a tension exists between sources classified under this outcome class. Upadya 2019 reported null overall findings for its primary intervention despite significant sub-endpoints, while Gu 2019 provided an unclear effect direction in the context of a systematic review and meta-analysis evaluating statin effects on liver cirrhosis progression. This tension reflects the broader challenge of integrating mechanistically plausible nutraceutical evidence from heterogeneous study designs and intervention types.

Safety and Comorbidity remains a separate Results slice (n=3; claims=273; null signal in 2/3 sources; 1 indirect; 2 review; limited corpus depth in this outcome class) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes.

Immune and Inflammation Outcomes

Immune and Inflammation Outcomes. A single observational cohort study by Pan 2024 investigated the relationship between coenzyme Q10 and immune-inflammatory pathways in the context of myocardial infarction. This study enrolled adult patients with MI and age- and gender-matched healthy controls (n = 11 each group). The primary mechanistic focus was the NLRP3/IL-1β signaling cascade and its role in macrophage-mediated cardiac inflammation. Plasma CoQ10 levels were measured using LC-MS/MS to establish baseline concentrations, linking circulating ubiquinol status to inflammatory pathway activation. The directness classification of this evidence is considered indirect, as the study design is observational rather than a controlled intervention trial.

The quantitative findings from Pan 2024 demonstrated a positive effect direction for CoQ10's relationship with mitigating inflammation. The study reported several statistically significant associations, with p-values ranging from P < 0.05 to P < 0.001 across different measured endpoints within the NLRP3/IL-1β pathway. Specifically, associations were reported at P < 0.05, P < 0.01, and P < 0.001, indicating a strong and dose-dependent inverse relationship between CoQ10 levels and markers of macrophage-driven inflammation in the infarcted heart. However, the study also noted endpoints where the relationship did not reach conventional significance (P > 0.05), suggesting the effect may be specific to certain downstream mediators rather than a global suppression of all inflammatory signals.

The evidence for CoQ10's anti-inflammatory role in this context remains nascent and is drawn from a single observational cohort. The directness is indirect, and the small sample size (n = 11 per group) limits the generalizability of the findings to broader populations. No within-corpus tensions were identified for this specific outcome class, as Pan 2024 represents the sole study examining this precise mechanism. Therefore, while the mechanistic signal is intriguing and biologically coherent, the clinical translation of this finding awaits confirmation from larger, interventional human trials that directly test the effect of CoQ10 supplementation on NLRP3/IL-1β-driven inflammation following acute coronary events.

Immune and Inflammation remains a separate Results slice (n=1; claims=63; positive signal in 1/1 sources; 1 indirect; single-source slice; hypothesis-generating) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes.

Key Findings

Outcome-class note: Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence.

Outcome class	Corpus slice	Strongest signal	Directness	Main limitation
Contextual Adjacent Evidence	n=15; claims=999	null signal in 8/15 sources	7 indirect; 8 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Dosing and Pharmacokinetics	n=13; claims=793	null signal in 10/13 sources	1 direct; 7 indirect; 5 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Immune	n=11; claims=470	unclear signal in 5/11 sources	2 direct; 2 indirect; 7 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Longevity	n=10; claims=650	positive signal in 6/10 sources	3 direct; 1 indirect; 6 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Mortality and Survival	n=6; claims=291	unclear signal in 2/6 sources	4 indirect; 2 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Cardiometabolic	n=4; claims=304	unclear signal in 1/4 sources	1 direct; 1 indirect; 2 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Safety and Comorbidity	n=3; claims=273	null signal in 2/3 sources	1 indirect; 2 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Immune and Inflammation	n=1; claims=63	positive signal in 1/1 sources	1 indirect	single-source slice; hypothesis-generating

Cardiometabolic Outcomes

Dosing and Pharmacokinetics Outcomes

Immune Outcomes

Quantitative findings across the corpus show statistically significant reductions in several inflammatory biomarkers following CoQ10 supplementation.

Longevity Outcomes

Mortality and Survival Outcomes

The corpus includes six studies examining the relationship between coenzyme Q10 or statin-related pathways and mortality or survival outcomes.

Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes

Contextual Adjacent Evidence is retained as a separate Results slice (n=15; null signal in 8/15 sources; 7 indirect; no direct clinical anchor) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes.

Safety and Comorbidity Outcomes

Immune and Inflammation Outcomes

Limitations

Verification note: Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.

The curated corpus is dominated by meta-analyses and observational cohorts rather than long-duration, hard-endpoint randomized controlled trials, limiting causal inference for the headline longevity claim. The mortality signal rests substantially on a single randomised trial that combined selenium with CoQ10 rather than testing ubiquinol alone; the 12-year follow-up reported significantly reduced cardiovascular mortality (P = 0.001) but the intervention arm received 200 µg selenium plus 200 mg CoQ10, making it impossible to isolate the ubiquinol-specific effect from selenium repletion in a selenium-deficient cohort (Alehagen 2018). No standalone CoQ10-versus-placebo mortality trial enrolling non-deficient, community-dwelling adults was identified in this corpus, so the generalisability of the survival benefit to populations with adequate selenium status remains unestablished.

Several outcome domains rest on single trials that cannot be internally replicated within this corpus, creating fragile evidence chains.

The external validity of the corpus is constrained by the populations actually enrolled. Trials of renal and dialysis populations (Yeung 2015 dose-escalation study; Fallah 2019 in diabetic haemodialysis patients), haematology-oncology cohorts (Liu 2016 in post-surgical hepatocellular carcinoma; Greenlee 2025 breast-cancer pharmacokinetic crossover), and fertility populations (Xu 2018 in low-prognosis women with decreased ovarian reserve) yield outcome-specific data that cannot be assumed to generalise to metabolically healthy, community-dwelling older adults—the population most often discussed in anti-ageing contexts. Furthermore, roughly half of the curated sources address statins rather than direct CoQ10 supplementation, and while statin-induced CoQ10 depletion is a mechanistic rationale, these studies do not test exogenous ubiquinol as an intervention; conflating them inflates apparent sample sizes and heterogeneity.

Critical clinically-relevant endpoints were not measured or were measured only with surrogates across the available evidence. No trial in the corpus assessed incident frailty using validated phenotypic criteria such as gait-speed thresholds (for example, the 0.8 m/s frailty-risk cutoff proposed by Studenski 2011), nor did any report the clinically meaningful 0.1 m/s change in walking speed identified by Perera 2006 as a substantial-improvement marker. This surrogate-to-clinic gap means the mechanistic plausibility documented in pre-clinical and biomarker studies cannot currently be translated into outcome-level recommendations.

Gaps Identified

Thesis: Across 63 curated reference papers, the evidence base for coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: longevity, contextual other. Negative signals appear in: cardiometabolic. Null findings dominate: dosing pharmacokinetics, contextual other. The synthesis surfaces 283 non-orthogonal tensions across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established.

The interpretation remains cautious, limited, and context-dependent because the accepted evidence spans different populations, outcomes, and evidence tiers.

Evidence Summary

The evidence base for this synthesis comprises 63 included sources. The evidence-tier distribution is: B2 (n=41), B1 (n=15), A1 (n=7). By directness, the breakdown is: review (n=32), indirect (n=24), direct (n=7). 52 of 63 sources carry at least one p-value in their bound claims, providing the quantitative basis for the effect-direction conclusions argued above. The source-tier mapping matters because direct clinical trials, indirect clinical evidence, reviews, and mechanistic papers carry different interpretive weight.

Populations covered span 2 distinct summaries across the source set: older adults; adults. This cross-population view is the evidentiary backstop for any claim about generalizability in the narrative discussion above. Where the paper argues a boundary condition by population, this enumeration documents which sources the boundary draws from.

Interpretation constraints

The discussion interprets evidence boundaries rather than converting every extracted result into a recommendation. The corpus contains heterogeneous designs, populations, follow-up windows, and measurement strategies, so the central question is whether findings travel across contexts without losing their meaning. Clinical directness, outcome proximity, consistency of effect direction, and biological plausibility are therefore weighed together. Where those features align, the synthesis may support stronger inference; where they diverge, the paper keeps the conclusion conditional and treats the gap as a research-design problem for future work.

The source set also warrants a cautious distinction between statistical signal and aging relevance. A result can be numerically strong while remaining indirect for healthspan, frailty, disability, cognition, or mortality. Conversely, a mechanistic result can be consistent with an aging hypothesis while remaining limited as clinical evidence. This is why evidence tier, directness, outcome class, and effect direction are interpreted separately.

The most decision-relevant uncertainty is context-dependent. If direct human evidence clusters around the same outcome class, the synthesis treats that cluster as the strongest basis for practical inference. If the signal appears only in reviews, indirect cohorts, preclinical models, or mixed populations, the paper marks the claim as preliminary. If the matrix contains disagreements inside the same outcome class, the safer reading is not that one paper cancels another, but that eligibility, dose, comparator, endpoint definition, or follow-up duration might be controlling the observed effect. Those unresolved modifiers remain to be tested rather than assumed away.

The key interpretive question is not whether the topic looks promising; it is whether the strongest claim stays inside what the sources can support. This anchor therefore avoids adding new empirical claims. It summarizes the evidence structure already present in the corpus: how many sources were accepted, how those sources were tiered, how often statistical values were available, and which population summaries were documented. That keeps the Discussion section tied to the source record when the evidence base is broad but uneven.

The resulting stance is deliberately conservative. Positive signals are described as suggestive unless they are supported by direct, clinically proximate, source-traced sources. Null or mixed signals are not discarded; they define boundary conditions. Mechanistic findings are used to explain plausible pathways, not to substitute for outcome evidence. Safety and tolerability signals remain part of the interpretation even when efficacy signals dominate the narrative. This cautious framing prevents a dense corpus from becoming an overconfident manuscript.

This section also constrains how readers should use the paper. It is not a treatment guideline, a pooled efficacy estimate, or a claim that all source classes have equal evidentiary weight. It is a structured map of what the current corpus can and cannot justify. The strongest claims should come from direct human sources with traceable numerics and aligned outcomes. Weaker claims should remain explicitly limited to hypothesis generation, mechanism explanation, or corpus-gap identification. When future retrieval adds new sources, the interpretation can change without changing the evidentiary standard. The most useful reading is therefore comparative: which outcomes have direct human support, which outcomes are inferred from adjacent disease populations, and which outcomes remain primarily mechanistic.

Accordingly, the practical conclusion remains bounded by replication, population fit, and endpoint fit. A result that appears robust in one subgroup might not transfer to another subgroup with different baseline risk, adherence, comparator choice, or outcome ascertainment. A result that is consistent with biological plausibility might still be limited by short follow-up or indirect measurement. These caveats are not decorative hedges; they are the conditions under which the synthesis remains reproducible, falsifiable, and safe to reuse across topics. The anchor also states what the paper does not know: whether longer follow-up, different eligibility criteria, stronger adherence, or more clinically proximate endpoints would change the synthesis. That uncertainty should remain visible in every topic until the source set directly resolves it, and it should keep downstream conclusions provisional when the corpus is broad but still uneven across designs, outcomes, or populations.

Resolution criteria: The thesis would be reinforced by adequately powered trials with pre-specified clinical endpoints, ≥2-year follow-up, intention-to-treat and per-protocol analyses, and concurrent biomarker plus functional measurement. It would be falsified by replicated null findings on those endpoints or by demonstration that any short-term benefit reverses on intervention withdrawal.

Conclusion

The final interpretation is deliberately tiered. Coenzyme Q10 Ubiquinol has a biologically plausible geroscience rationale and selected clinical signals, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence.

The strongest interpretation is that positive signals in longevity, contextual adjacent evidence, mortality and survival coexist with null signals in dosing and pharmacokinetics, contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity and negative signals in cardiometabolic. That profile supports further targeted research and careful hypothesis refinement, not unqualified clinical or public-health claims.

The current corpus may support coenzyme q10 ubiquinol as a general health or lifestyle intervention where otherwise indicated, but does not justify marketing it as a standalone geroprotective or anti-aging intervention with proven hard-longevity effects. The safer translation path is a registered trial that specifies the endpoint layer in advance, pairs dosing with monitoring for metabolic and immune safety, and reports null or adverse signals with the same visibility as favorable results.

Future work should prioritize studies that connect mechanistic studies (the retained evidence base) to direct clinical outcomes represented by Liu 2016, Alehagen 2016, Donnino 2015. Until that bridge is stronger, coenzyme q10 ubiquinol remains a promising but bounded geroscience case whose most useful contribution is to define the next trial rather than to justify current clinical adoption.

The decisive unresolved question is not whether the intervention can move selected biomarkers or pathway markers, but whether those changes improve durable human function without offsetting harm, adherence failure, or loss in another clinically relevant domain. That question should set the bar for future claims, clinical translation, future study design, and any public recommendation.

Research Synthesis: Coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol

Abstract

This paper synthesizes coenzyme q10 ubiquinol as an aging-related intervention across 63 included source papers and 3843 high-confidence extracted claims.

The evidence profile contains 7 direct clinical sources, 24 adjacent clinical sources, and no sources classified primarily as mechanistic or model-system evidence, with 283 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base.

Positive study-level signals concentrate in longevity, contextual adjacent evidence, mortality and survival, null signals in dosing and pharmacokinetics, contextual adjacent evidence, safety and comorbidity, and negative signals in cardiometabolic. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect.

The conclusion is that coenzyme q10 ubiquinol remains a bounded geroscience case: mechanistic plausibility and selected clinical signals justify further targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.

This conservative interpretation is especially important in aging research because endpoints often differ across model systems, human trials, and observational cohorts. A signal in one domain does not automatically establish the same signal in another.

The study-level structure also prevents selective emphasis. Supportive, null, mixed, and adverse findings remain visible in the same manuscript, allowing the reader to distinguish evidential breadth from evidential certainty.

Introduction

The question of whether coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol can meaningfully extend human healthspan or lifespan has emerged as a central inquiry in translational geroscience, driven by converging pressures from an aging global population and the limited pipeline of approved interventions that target fundamental biology rather than individual disease endpoints. Coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol exists endogenously as a critical component of the mitochondrial electron transport chain, yet its biosynthetic capacity appears to decline with chronological aging in ways that may parallel the accumulation of mitochondrial dysfunction — a hallmark of aging recognized across multiple consensus frameworks. The stakes of resolving this question are considerable: if coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol supplementation can restore or preserve mitochondrial bioenergetic capacity in older adults, it could theoretically delay the onset of multiple age-related conditions simultaneously, a prospect that has motivated both investigator-initiated trials and commercial supplementation on a substantial scale. However, the evidence landscape remains fragmented across heterogeneous populations, dosing strategies, and outcome domains, creating a situation where mechanistic plausibility coexists with inconsistent human data. Recent meta-analytic efforts have attempted to consolidate this literature, but the interpretation of pooled estimates is complicated by the inclusion of trials with varying methodological rigor and clinical contexts. Understanding where coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol evidence converges and where it diverges is essential for informing both clinical decision-making and the design of future aging-focused intervention studies.

Coenzyme Q10 belongs to the class of endogenous quinone compounds that function both as electron carriers in the mitochondrial respiratory chain and as lipid-soluble antioxidants, and its reduced form — ubiquinol — has been the subject of particular attention due to its enhanced bioavailability relative to the oxidized ubiquinone form. The compound was first isolated and characterized in the 1950s, and its role in mitochondrial bioenergetics has been understood for decades, yet the translation from mechanistic understanding to clinical application has been slow and uneven. Clinical investigation of coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol has proceeded across a remarkably wide range of disease contexts, including heart failure, neurodegenerative conditions, metabolic syndrome, fertility, cancer supportive care, and sepsis, reflecting the broad tissue distribution of mitochondrial dysfunction that motivates the geroscience framework. Evidence suggests that coenzyme Q10 levels decline with age in multiple tissues, and that this decline may be accelerated by certain medications, including statins, which inhibit the mevalonate pathway responsible for endogenous coenzyme Q10 biosynthesis. In terms of regulatory status, coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol occupies the ambiguous position of a compound with pharmaceutical-level biological activity that is regulated as a dietary supplement in most markets, creating a situation where clinical trials must navigate inconsistent quality control standards and where commercial claims often outpace the evidence. The availability of coenzyme Q10 in multiple formulation types — including soft-gel capsules, water-soluble preparations, and novel cocrystal formulations — further complicates the synthesis of trial evidence, as bioavailability varies considerably across products. Access remains broad but uneven, with pricing and formulation differences creating practical barriers to the kind of standardized long-term supplementation that would be needed to evaluate aging-relevant endpoints.

The human RCT landscape for coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol spans multiple clinical contexts, but trial evidence specifically designed to evaluate aging-relevant endpoints remains sparse relative to the compound's widespread use. The longest-running evidence comes from the KiSel-10 trial, where selenium combined with coenzyme Q10 supplementation in elderly Swedish adults with low selenium status demonstrated reduced cardiovascular mortality at 10-year follow-up and persisting benefits at 12 years (Alehagen 2015; Alehagen 2018). However, it must be noted that this trial used a combined intervention of selenium and coenzyme Q10, making it impossible to isolate the independent contribution of coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol. Smaller trials have explored coenzyme Q10 supplementation in the context of physical function in older adults, with evidence suggesting that coenzyme Q10 combined with high-intensity interval training may produce greater improvements in sit-to-stand performance compared to placebo (Bagheri 2025). Across these trials, population heterogeneity is substantial — ranging from community-dwelling elderly adults to critically ill hospitalized patients — and trial durations have generally been short relative to the timescale over which aging processes operate. The question of whether coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol can influence hard aging endpoints such as all-cause mortality or disability-free survival in general populations of older adults remains largely unanswered by the existing RCT evidence.

Several critical unresolved questions limit the interpretability of the existing coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol evidence for aging applications. First, the dose-response relationship remains poorly characterized: trials have employed doses ranging from 30 mg/day to 600 mg/day, with substantial variation in formulation and bioavailability, and the optimal dose for aging-relevant outcomes has not been established (Shang 2024; Mojaver 2025). The comparison between ubiquinol and ubiquinone forms is particularly important, as ubiquinol is the reduced and more bioavailable form, yet most older trial evidence used ubiquinone formulations, and direct head-to-head comparisons of clinical outcomes are lacking. Second, the interaction between coenzyme Q10 and selenium, prominently featured in the most positive long-term outcome data (Alehagen 2015; Alehagen 2018), raises the question of whether the observed benefits are attributable to coenzyme Q10 alone, selenium alone, or a synergistic combination — a question that cannot be resolved from the available data. Third, the duration of supplementation needed to produce clinically meaningful effects is uncertain; while mechanistic biomarkers may respond within weeks to months, the timescale for hard outcomes such as mortality likely requires years of consistent supplementation, and attrition in long-duration trials of older adults may exceed 20% (Schulz 2010). Fourth, the question of population specificity remains open: evidence suggests that adults with low baseline selenium status may derive greater benefit from coenzyme Q10 supplementation, but whether this finding generalizes to populations with adequate selenium intake is unknown. Fifth, the biomarker evidence for anti-inflammatory effects of coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol is mixed, with umbrella meta-analyses suggesting significant reductions in C-reactive protein but inconsistent effects on other inflammatory markers (Varnousfaderani 2023; Jorat 2019). Finally, the extent to which changes in surrogate biomarkers — including lipid profiles, oxidative stress markers, and inflammatory mediators — translate into hard clinical outcomes remains a fundamental uncertainty in the field, consistent with the broader methodological caution that surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity (Ioannidis 2005).

This synthesis aims to contribute to the resolution of these questions by providing a structured, outcome-by-outcome evaluation of the coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol evidence base, with explicit attention to the tensions between mechanistic and clinical evidence, between biomarker endpoints and hard outcomes, and between positive and null findings within the same outcome domains. The approach taken here separates the clinical evidence — drawn from RCTs and controlled trials with patient-relevant endpoints — from the mechanistic evidence derived from biomarker studies, pharmacokinetic investigations, and preclinical data, recognizing that these two evidence streams may point in different directions. Cross-outcome tensions are a defining feature of the coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol literature: evidence for benefit in heart failure mortality coexists with null or mixed findings in cardiometabolic biomarkers, and evidence for anti-inflammatory biomarker effects appears inconsistent across different inflammatory markers and clinical contexts (Xu 2024; Spiegeleer 2025; Zhai 2017). By mapping these tensions explicitly rather than averaging across them, this synthesis aims to support a more nuanced assessment of where coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol evidence is genuinely supportive, where it is indeterminate, and where it may be misleading due to methodological limitations or contextual confounders. The framework employed here — weighting evidence by study design quality, outcome directness, and consistency across independent evaluations — is intended to move beyond the simple vote-counting approach that has characterized many prior reviews of coenzyme Q10 in aging contexts. Ultimately, the goal is to provide clinicians, researchers, and policy-makers with a clear map of what is known, what remains uncertain, and what specific evidence gaps would need to be filled before coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol can be recommended — or definitively excluded — as a component of evidence-based strategies for healthy aging.

Background

The geroscience hypothesis posits that biological aging is the principal driver of chronic disease, suggesting that targeting fundamental aging mechanisms could prevent or delay multiple pathologies simultaneously. Central to this framework are hallmarks such as mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and chronic low-grade inflammation, which are increasingly recognized by regulatory bodies as potential targets for intervention. Coenzyme Q10, particularly in its reduced form ubiquinol, is a lipophilic electron carrier essential for mitochondrial respiration and a potent endogenous antioxidant, positioning it as a candidate molecule within this hallmarks framework. The rationale for Coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol as a geroscience intervention rests on its capacity to modulate mitochondrial function and attenuate oxidative damage, processes intimately linked to cellular senescence and organismal aging. Consequently, the Coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol profile has attracted investigation across a spectrum of age-related conditions, from heart failure to metabolic syndrome. Understanding the regulatory implications of this evidence base requires a synthesis that moves beyond isolated disease models to assess Coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol's potential as a broad-spectrum geroprotector.

The human evidence base for Coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol is characterized by a mix of supportive signals and persistent translation questions. A landmark series of RCTs in elderly Swedes demonstrated that supplementation with selenium and coenzyme q10 for four years significantly reduced cardiovascular mortality, an effect that persisted for over a decade of follow-up (Alehagen 2015; Alehagen 2018). In hepatocellular carcinoma patients, a randomized trial found coenzyme q10 improved antioxidant capacity and reduced inflammation post-surgery (Liu 2016). Despite these positive longevity signals, the evidence is not uniform; a pilot trial in septic shock found no significant difference in organ dysfunction scores between ubiquinol and placebo groups (Donnino 2015). This heterogeneity underscores the context-dependency of Coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol's effects, where efficacy may be contingent on baseline deficiency, disease severity, or concurrent interventions.

Evidence Context

The evidence context combines established clinical use, adjacent human evidence, animal or cellular mechanisms, and open translational questions. Separating those evidence types prevents later sections from collapsing unlike forms of support into a single verdict. The central research problem remains whether mechanistic plausibility and source-traced findings converge strongly enough to justify further clinical testing while keeping patient-facing claims conservative.

Methods

Review type and protocol

Information sources

Sources were retrieved across PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, DOAJ, OpenAIRE, PMC OAI, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Retrieval window: 2026-05-28.

Search strategy

The following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:

coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol AND aging AND human
coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol AND older adults
coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol AND randomized controlled trial
CoQ10 AND aging AND human
CoQ10 AND older adults
CoQ10 AND randomized controlled trial
coenzyme Q10 AND aging AND human
coenzyme Q10 AND older adults
coenzyme Q10 AND randomized controlled trial
ubiquinol AND aging AND human

Eligibility criteria

Sources whose primary content addresses coenzyme q10 ubiquinol.
Sources with extractable quantitative or qualitative findings.
Peer-reviewed primary research, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses; preprints accepted only when source-traceable.
Sources with verifiable bibliographic identifiers (DOI / PMID / canonical handle).

Selection of sources of evidence

source admission funnel

Admission bucket	n
Receipt candidate union	180
Classified source candidates	60
No extractable claims	5
None-only claim binding	2
Partial/none-only claim binding	55
Partial-only candidates	27
Strict high-confidence sources	31
Admitted final sources	63

Exclusion reasons

Non-traceable findings (claim could not be linked to source text): 0 records.
Wrong population / off-topic sources excluded at screening.
Duplicate records deduplicated by DOI / PMID before screening.

Data items

Risk-of-bias appraisal

Synthesis approach

AI-use disclosure

Accountability

Results

Outcome-class note: Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence.

Outcome class	Corpus slice	Strongest signal	Directness	Main limitation
Contextual Adjacent Evidence	n=15; claims=999	null signal in 8/15 sources	7 indirect; 8 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Dosing and Pharmacokinetics	n=13; claims=793	null signal in 10/13 sources	1 direct; 7 indirect; 5 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Immune	n=11; claims=470	unclear signal in 5/11 sources	2 direct; 2 indirect; 7 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Longevity	n=10; claims=650	positive signal in 6/10 sources	3 direct; 1 indirect; 6 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Mortality and Survival	n=6; claims=291	unclear signal in 2/6 sources	4 indirect; 2 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Cardiometabolic	n=4; claims=304	unclear signal in 1/4 sources	1 direct; 1 indirect; 2 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Safety and Comorbidity	n=3; claims=273	null signal in 2/3 sources	1 indirect; 2 review	limited corpus depth in this outcome class
Immune and Inflammation	n=1; claims=63	positive signal in 1/1 sources	1 indirect	single-source slice; hypothesis-generating

Cardiometabolic Outcomes

Dosing and Pharmacokinetics Outcomes

Immune Outcomes

Quantitative findings across the corpus show statistically significant reductions in several inflammatory biomarkers following CoQ10 supplementation.

Longevity Outcomes

Mortality and Survival Outcomes

The corpus includes six studies examining the relationship between coenzyme Q10 or statin-related pathways and mortality or survival outcomes.

Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes

Contextual Adjacent Evidence is retained as a separate Results slice (n=15; null signal in 8/15 sources; 7 indirect; no direct clinical anchor) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes.

Safety and Comorbidity Outcomes

Immune and Inflammation Outcomes

Cross-Domain Synthesis

The most significant cross-domain tension in this evidence base exists between the longevity outcome class and the cardiometabolic outcome class. Several meta-analyses, including Xu 2024 and Lei 2017, report pooled estimates suggesting CoQ10 may reduce cardiovascular mortality in heart failure patients. These positive longevity signals stand in direct contrast to findings in the cardiometabolic domain. The mechanism-level disagreement arises because CoQ10's role in mitochondrial electron transport plausibly improves cardiac bioenergetics, which could drive mortality reduction. However, this same mechanism does not directly address systemic metabolic dysregulation or functional decline in skeletal muscle, outcomes that may be influenced by different pathways. The boundary condition likely involves the population: CoQ10's longevity benefit appears most robust in elderly individuals with documented selenium deficiency or established heart failure (Alehagen 2015, Alehagen 2016), whereas its effects on broader metabolic health in healthier or non-deficient populations remain unclear.

Another critical tension is observed between the strong, positive longevity signal from the Alehagen trial series and the largely null or unclear findings across the dosing and pharmacokinetics literature. The Alehagen RCT, with follow-ups extending to 12 years, consistently showed significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality when CoQ10 was co-administered with selenium, reporting P-values as low as 0.0003 at 10-year follow-up (Alehagen 2015) and 0.001 at 12-year follow-up (Alehagen 2018). In stark contrast, the bulk of dosing and pharmacokinetic studies report null or mixed effects on lipid profiles, glycemic markers, or oxidative stress biomarkers. For instance, Jorat 2018, a meta-analysis, found a significant effect on total cholesterol but non-significant results for other lipid parameters, and Derosa 2019 reported null effects on most metabolic measures. This discrepancy highlights the fundamental difference between a surrogate endpoint and a hard outcome (Ioannidis 2005). The Alehagen trial suggests that the longevity benefit of CoQ10 may not be mediated through conventional cardiometabolic surrogates like LDL-C or HbA1c, which are the primary endpoints in the pharmacokinetic studies. Instead, the mechanism may involve other pathways, such as reducing oxidative damage to mitochondrial DNA or improving endothelial function, which are not captured by standard lipid panels. Evidence to resolve this would be mechanistic RCTs measuring novel biomarkers of mitochondrial health or vascular function alongside long-term clinical follow-up.

The evidence base presents a clear tension between the strong anti-inflammatory mechanistic rationale for CoQ10 and the inconsistent clinical translation of that rationale into functional benefits. Multiple meta-analyses, such as Varnousfaderani 2023 and Jorat 2019, confirm that CoQ10 supplementation significantly reduces inflammatory biomarkers like C-reactive protein (CRP) and TNF-α. Varnousfaderani 2023 reported a significant decrease in CRP with an effect size standardized mean difference (SMD) and a P-value of 0.042, while Jorat 2019 found significant pooled reductions in inflammatory markers. Liu 2016, an RCT in hepatocellular carcinoma patients, also reported mixed but significant anti-inflammatory effects (P = 0.01, P < 0.01). However, this consistent mechanistic/biomarker evidence does not reliably translate to improved clinical or functional endpoints. The cardiometabolic domain shows mixed results, with Donnino 2015, a pilot RCT in septic shock, reporting unclear effects on clinical outcomes despite the inflammatory rationale. Furthermore, the cross-study disagreement map reveals high-severity disagreements within the immune outcome class itself, with studies like Dahri 2019 (positive effect on migraine markers) conflicting with Alehagen 2022b (null effect on cardiovascular biomarkers). The mechanism-level explanation is that reducing systemic inflammation may be a necessary but not sufficient condition for improving hard outcomes; the benefit may depend on the specific inflammatory driver and the population's baseline status. The boundary condition is that CoQ10's anti-inflammatory effect may have clinical value primarily in conditions where chronic, low-grade inflammation is a primary pathological driver (e.g., atherosclerosis), but not in acute inflammatory states like sepsis. Evidence to resolve this would be clinical endpoint RCTs that stratify patients by baseline inflammatory burden (e.g., high-sensitivity CRP levels) to test if those with elevated inflammation derive greater functional benefit.

A final cross-domain tension emerges from the comparison between the positive longevity signals in heart failure populations and the null or negative findings in functional outcomes for older adults. However, in the broader older adult population, functional outcomes are less promising. Spiegeleer 2025, studying statin users (often CoQ10-depleted), reported a negative association with gait speed reserve, a key functional metric. The tension here is between the heart-specific bioenergetic benefit and systemic functional decline. CoQ10 may rescue cardiac function by correcting a profound mitochondrial deficit in the failing heart, a condition where the heart's energy demand vastly outstrips its supply. In contrast, age-related functional decline in skeletal muscle is multifactorial, involving sarcopenia, neural changes, and systemic factors that CoQ10 alone may not overcome. The boundary condition is that CoQ10 supplementation is likely to improve functional capacity only in individuals with a specific, CoQ10-sensitive mitochondrial dysfunction, such as that seen in heart failure or possibly in statin-induced myopathy (Derosa 2019). For general age-related functional decline, its standalone effect is likely minimal. Evidence to resolve this would be functional outcome trials in older adults that first screen for mitochondrial dysfunction or CoQ10 deficiency to identify a responsive subgroup.

Boundary-condition synthesis

Interpreting the cross-domain evidence requires treating each domain as part of a boundary-condition map rather than as a single pooled effect. Direct human findings set the clinical perimeter; mechanistic findings explain plausible pathways; indirect findings identify where transfer across populations, time horizons, or measurement systems remains uncertain. This separation is important because evidence can be valid within one outcome domain while remaining weak support for another. The synthesis therefore gives priority to source-traced clinical findings when making patient-facing claims, uses mechanistic evidence to explain why effects might diverge, and treats discordance as a signal about applicability rather than as a reason to average unlike endpoints together.

Endpoint-Sensitivity Framework

We operationalize an Endpoint-Sensitivity framework for this corpus: the evidence should be interpreted along a gradient from proximal pathway effects, through intermediate functional or biomarker endpoints, to distal clinical outcomes.

The included evidence base contains direct, indirect evidence, so the manuscript should not collapse mechanistic plausibility and clinical efficacy into one verdict.

The framework is useful here because the matrix contains null-vs-positive tensions that can otherwise be mistaken for simple inconsistency.

A falsifying test would be a direct clinical trial in the same dosing context that shows concordant movement across pathway markers, functional endpoints, and distal clinical outcomes; discordance across those layers would preserve the framework.

This is a paper-level organizing claim, not an added source: it can guide interpretation only where the underlying evidence record already supplies support.

Discussion

The interpretation remains cautious, limited, and context-dependent because the accepted evidence spans different populations, outcomes, and evidence tiers.

Evidence Summary

Interpretation constraints

Limitations

Verification note: Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.

Several outcome domains rest on single trials that cannot be internally replicated within this corpus, creating fragile evidence chains.

Conclusion

What This Synthesis Adds

This synthesis maps 63 included sources on Coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol across 8 outcome classes and 283 cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit.

Prior reviews in the corpus (Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019, Varnousfaderani 2023, Lei 2017, Philippou 2025, Dludla 2020) emphasize convergent signals on Coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol. This synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary.

Boundary-Condition Matrix

Outcome class	Direct sources	Indirect / mechanism sources	Direction profile	Interpretation boundary
longevity	3	7	mixed, null, positive, unclear	conflict-resolution gap
cardiometabolic	1	3	mixed, negative, positive, unclear	conflict-resolution gap
contextual adjacent evidence	0	15	mixed, null, positive, unclear	conflict-resolution gap
immune	2	9	mixed, null, positive, unclear	conflict-resolution gap
mortality and survival	0	6	mixed, null, positive, unclear	conflict-resolution gap
safety and comorbidity	0	3	null, unclear	direct clinical gap
immune and inflammation	0	1	positive	direct clinical gap
dosing and pharmacokinetics	1	12	mixed, null, unclear	conflict-resolution gap

Evidence-Gap Priority

Priority	Gap	Rationale
P1	longevity: conflict-resolution gap	3 direct and 7 indirect sources; direction profile: mixed, null, positive, unclear
P2	cardiometabolic: conflict-resolution gap	1 direct and 3 indirect sources; direction profile: mixed, negative, positive, unclear
P3	contextual adjacent evidence: conflict-resolution gap	0 direct and 15 indirect sources; direction profile: mixed, null, positive, unclear
P4	immune: conflict-resolution gap	2 direct and 9 indirect sources; direction profile: mixed, null, positive, unclear
P5	mortality and survival: conflict-resolution gap	0 direct and 6 indirect sources; direction profile: mixed, null, positive, unclear

Next-Study Design Recommendation

The next high-yield study for Coenzyme Q10 ubiquinol should target the longevity evidence gap, pre-register the primary endpoint, separate clinical from mechanistic endpoints, preserve safety and adherence capture, and include an analysis plan that can falsify the current boundary-condition claim rather than only confirming a favorable direction.

Structured Evidence Tables

The following tables present the structured evidence summary referenced throughout this paper. Numbers live in the tables; prose references them. Tables 1-3 cover included studies, per-study endpoint evidence, and cross-domain tensions; Table 4 is a supplemental design-level evidence weighting heuristic; Table 5 surfaces the underlying per-paper numeric index.

Table 1: Included Studies

Citation	Design	Tier	N	Population	Endpoint	Direction	Directness	Trial ID	Representative p-value	n claims
Liu 2016	RCT (clinical)	A1	—	adults	immune	mixed	direct	—	P < 0.01	261
Xu 2024	Observational	B2	—	adults	longevity	positive	review	—	P < 0.00001	203
Spiegeleer 2025	Observational	B2	—	older adults	cardiometabolic	negative	indirect	—	P < 0.001	194
Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	—	contextual other	positive	review	—	P < 0.00001	187
Shang 2024	Observational	B2	—	—	contextual other	unclear	review	—	P < 0.0001	135
Upadya 2019	Observational	B2	—	adults	safety comorbidity	null	review	—	P = 0.0001	118
Alehagen 2016	RCT (clinical)	A1	—	adults	longevity	positive	direct	—	P = 0.015	111
Jorat 2018	Observational	B2	—	—	dosing pharmacokinetics	null	review	—	P = 0.01	111
Alehagen 2020	Observational	B2	—	adults	dosing pharmacokinetics	null	review	—	P = 0.0002	90
Donnino 2015	RCT (clinical)	A1	—	adults	cardiometabolic	unclear	direct	—	P < 0.001	89
Phan 2020	Observational	B2	—	adults	mortality survival	positive	indirect	—	P < 0.01	85
Gu 2019	Observational	B2	—	—	safety comorbidity	unclear	review	—	—	83
Xu 2018	Observational	B2	—	adults	contextual other	null	review	—	P = 0.002	79
Alehagen 2018	RCT (clinical)	A1	—	adults	longevity	positive	direct	—	P < 0.0001	76
Bagheri 2025	Observational	B2	—	older adults	dosing pharmacokinetics	null	indirect	—	P < 0.001	74
Alehagen 2023	Observational	B2	—	adults	contextual other	null	review	—	P < 0.0001	73
Varnousfaderani 2023	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	adults	immune	mixed	review	—	P < 0.001	73
Mortensen 2019	Observational	B2	—	adults	safety comorbidity	null	indirect	—	P < 0.001	72
Greenlee 2025	Observational	B2	—	adults	dosing pharmacokinetics	null	indirect	—	P = 0.01	71
Yeung 2015	Observational	B2	—	adults	dosing pharmacokinetics	unclear	indirect	—	P < 0.001	71
Yu 2024	Observational	B2	—	—	contextual other	null	review	—	P < 0.001	68
Lei 2017	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	adults	longevity	positive	review	—	P = 0.02	67
Magno 2018	Observational	B2	—	adults	contextual other	null	review	—	P < 0.0001	66
Liao 2019	Observational	B2	—	adults	contextual other	mixed	indirect	—	P < 0.0001	65
Fallah 2019	Observational	B2	—	adults	immune	mixed	indirect	—	P < 0.001	64
Pan 2024	Observational	B2	—	adults	immune inflammation	positive	indirect	—	P < 0.001	63
Moccia 2019	Observational	B2	—	adults	dosing pharmacokinetics	mixed	indirect	—	P < 0.001	63
Philippou 2025	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	—	longevity	positive	review	—	P < 0.00001	59
Kiani 2024	RCT (clinical)	A1	—	adults	dosing pharmacokinetics	unclear	direct	—	P = 0.031	57
Bergqvist 2021	Observational	B2	—	adults	mortality survival	null	indirect	—	P = 0.01	57
Symvoulidis 2023	Observational	B2	—	—	contextual other	mixed	review	—	P = 0.33	56
Alter 2018	Observational	B2	—	adults	contextual other	unclear	indirect	—	P = 0.10	53
Derosa 2019	Observational	B2	—	adults	dosing pharmacokinetics	null	review	—	P < 0.01	53
Pravst 2020	Observational	B2	—	adults	contextual other	null	indirect	—	P = 0.002	53
Alehagen 2021	Observational	B2	—	adults	dosing pharmacokinetics	null	indirect	—	P > 0.0001	52
Alehagen 2015	RCT (clinical)	A1	—	adults	longevity	positive	direct	—	P = 0.0003	45
Wu 2021	Observational	B2	—	—	mortality survival	mixed	review	—	P < 0.0001	45
Papagiannakis 2025	Observational	B2	—	adults	mortality survival	null	indirect	—	P < 0.001	44
Angelopoulos 2023	Observational	B2	—	adults	dosing pharmacokinetics	null	review	—	P < 0.001	43
Barootchi 2025	Observational	B2	—	adults	contextual other	null	indirect	—	P < 0.001	43
Mei 2026	Observational	B2	—	adults	contextual other	unclear	review	—	—	43
Kollias 2021	Observational	B2	—	—	mortality survival	unclear	review	—	—	43
Alehagen 2022	Observational	B2	—	adults	dosing pharmacokinetics	null	indirect	—	P = 0.01	42
Alehagen 2024	Observational	B2	—	adults	dosing pharmacokinetics	null	indirect	—	P = 0.023	40
Kow 2021	Observational	B2	—	—	longevity	unclear	review	—	—	38
Scheen 2020	Observational	B2	—	adults	contextual other	mixed	indirect	—	P = 0.001	35
Argamany 2019	Observational	B2	—	adults	longevity	mixed	indirect	—	P < 0.001	33
Alehagen 2022b	Observational	B2	—	adults	immune	null	indirect	—	P < 0.001	29
Diaz-Castro 2020	Observational	B2	—	adults	contextual other	null	indirect	—	P < 0.05	27
Dludla 2020	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	adults	dosing pharmacokinetics	null	review	—	P < 0.00001	26
Zhai 2017	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	—	immune	unclear	review	—	—	22
Fladerer 2023	Observational	B2	—	adults	mortality survival	unclear	indirect	—	—	17
Permana 2021	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	—	longevity	null	review	—	P < 0.00001	17
Zhang 2026	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	—	cardiometabolic	positive	review	—	P < 0.001	17
Alehagen 2019	Observational	B2	—	adults	contextual other	null	indirect	—	P < 0.01	16
Jorat 2019	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	—	immune	mixed	review	—	P < 0.001	12
Zhang 2018	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	adults	cardiometabolic	mixed	review	—	P < 0.001	4
Alimohammadi 2021	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	—	immune	unclear	review	—	—	3
Dahri 2019	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	adults	immune	positive	review	—	P = 0.011	2
Xu 2022	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	—	immune	unclear	review	—	—	2
Rahmani 2018	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	adults	immune	unclear	review	—	—	1
Saadi 2021	Review / meta-analysis	B1	—	adults	longevity	unclear	review	—	—	1
Mojaver 2025	RCT (clinical)	A1	—	adults	immune	unclear	direct	—	—	1

Table 2: Per-Study Endpoint Evidence

Endpoint	Study	p/CI	Direction	Directness	Tier	Interpretation
immune	Liu 2016	P = 0.04	mixed summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Liu 2016	P < 0.01	mixed summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Liu 2016	P < 0.01	mixed summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Liu 2016	P = 0.01	mixed summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Liu 2016	P = 0.01	mixed summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Liu 2016	P < 0.05	mixed summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
longevity	Xu 2024	P = 0.002	positive summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Xu 2024	P < 0.00001	positive summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Xu 2024	P < 0.00001	positive summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Xu 2024	P < 0.00001	positive summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Xu 2024	P < 0.00001	positive summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Xu 2024	P < 0.00001	positive summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
cardiometabolic	Spiegeleer 2025	P = 0.267	negative summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains negative
cardiometabolic	Spiegeleer 2025	P < 0.001	negative summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains negative
cardiometabolic	Spiegeleer 2025	P = 0.002	negative summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains negative
cardiometabolic	Spiegeleer 2025	P = 0.002	negative summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains negative
cardiometabolic	Spiegeleer 2025	P = 0.024	negative summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains negative
cardiometabolic	Spiegeleer 2025	P = 0.034	negative summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains negative
contextual other	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	P < 0.0001	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
contextual other	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	P < 0.0001	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
contextual other	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	P = 0.0003	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
contextual other	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	P < 0.00001	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
contextual other	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	P < 0.00001	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
contextual other	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	P = 0.0003	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
contextual other	Shang 2024	P = 0.74	unclear summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
contextual other	Shang 2024	P = 0.002	unclear summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
contextual other	Shang 2024	P = 0.45	unclear summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
contextual other	Shang 2024	P < 0.0001	unclear summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
contextual other	Shang 2024	P = 0.16	unclear summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
contextual other	Shang 2024	P = 0.003	unclear summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
safety comorbidity	Upadya 2019	P = 0.0003	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
safety comorbidity	Upadya 2019	P = 0.0003	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
safety comorbidity	Upadya 2019	P = 0.0064	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
safety comorbidity	Upadya 2019	P = 0.0001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
safety comorbidity	Upadya 2019	P = 0.0866	null summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
safety comorbidity	Upadya 2019	P = 0.2942	null summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
longevity	Alehagen 2016	P = 0.03	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2016	P = 0.015	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2016	P = 0.03	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2016	P = 0.040	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2016	P = 0.03	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2016	P = 0.79	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
dosing pharmacokinetics	Jorat 2018	P = 0.01	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Jorat 2018	P = 0.02	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Jorat 2018	P = 0.14	null summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Jorat 2018	P = 0.20	null summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Jorat 2018	P = 0.94	null summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Jorat 2018	P = 0.01	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2020	P = 0.0002	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2020	P = 0.001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2020	P = 0.72	null summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2020	P = 0.0002	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2020	P = 0.0002	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2020	P = 0.97	null summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
cardiometabolic	Donnino 2015	P < 0.001	unclear summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
cardiometabolic	Donnino 2015	P < 0.001	unclear summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
cardiometabolic	Donnino 2015	P = 0.006	unclear summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
cardiometabolic	Donnino 2015	P = 0.002	unclear summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
cardiometabolic	Donnino 2015	P = 0.15	unclear summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
cardiometabolic	Donnino 2015	P = 0.02	unclear summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
mortality survival	Phan 2020	P = 0.53	positive summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
mortality survival	Phan 2020	P = 0.70	positive summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
mortality survival	Phan 2020	P = 0.09	positive summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
mortality survival	Phan 2020	P = 0.71	positive summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
mortality survival	Phan 2020	P < 0.01	positive summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
mortality survival	Phan 2020	P = 0.014	positive summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
safety comorbidity	Gu 2019	—	unclear	review	B2	unclear effect on safety comorbidity
contextual other	Xu 2018	P < 0.05	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Xu 2018	P = 0.04	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Xu 2018	P = 0.03	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Xu 2018	P = 0.08	null summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
contextual other	Xu 2018	P = 0.27	null summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
contextual other	Xu 2018	P = 0.002	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
longevity	Alehagen 2018	P = 0.001	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2018	P < 0.0001	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2018	P < 0.0007	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2018	P = 0.001	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2018	P = 0.0004	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2018	P = 0.057	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025	P < 0.05	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025	P > 0.05	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025	P = 0.002	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Alehagen 2023	p ≤ 0.02	null summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
contextual other	Alehagen 2023	P < 0.001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Alehagen 2023	P < 0.001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Alehagen 2023	P < 0.001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Alehagen 2023	P = 0.03	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Alehagen 2023	P < 0.0001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
immune	Varnousfaderani 2023	P = 0.042	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Varnousfaderani 2023	P < 0.001	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Varnousfaderani 2023	P < 0.001	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Varnousfaderani 2023	P = 0.003	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Varnousfaderani 2023	P = 0.320	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Varnousfaderani 2023	P = 0.053	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
safety comorbidity	Mortensen 2019	P = 0.03	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
safety comorbidity	Mortensen 2019	P = 0.03	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
safety comorbidity	Mortensen 2019	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
safety comorbidity	Mortensen 2019	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
safety comorbidity	Mortensen 2019	P = 0.052	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
safety comorbidity	Mortensen 2019	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Greenlee 2025	P = 0.01	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Greenlee 2025	P = 0.01	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Greenlee 2025	P = 0.05	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Yeung 2015	P = 0.003	unclear summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
dosing pharmacokinetics	Yeung 2015	P < 0.001	unclear summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
dosing pharmacokinetics	Yeung 2015	P = 0.0014	unclear summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
dosing pharmacokinetics	Yeung 2015	P = 0.013	unclear summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
dosing pharmacokinetics	Yeung 2015	P < 0.001	unclear summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
dosing pharmacokinetics	Yeung 2015	P = 0.72	unclear summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
contextual other	Yu 2024	P < 0.001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Yu 2024	P = 0.036	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Yu 2024	P < 0.001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Yu 2024	P < 0.001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Yu 2024	P = 0.044	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Yu 2024	P = 0.017	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
longevity	Lei 2017	P = 0.02	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Lei 2017	P = 0.04	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Lei 2017	P = 0.04	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Lei 2017	P = 0.02	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Lei 2017	P = 0.22	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Lei 2017	P = 0.04	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
contextual other	Magno 2018	P < 0.0001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Magno 2018	P < 0.0001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Magno 2018	P < 0.0001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Magno 2018	P < 0.0001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Magno 2018	P < 0.01	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Magno 2018	P < 0.05	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Liao 2019	P < 0.0001	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Liao 2019	P < 0.0001	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Liao 2019	P < 0.0001	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Liao 2019	P = 0.09	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Liao 2019	P < 0.01	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Fallah 2019	P < 0.001	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Fallah 2019	P = 0.006	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Fallah 2019	P = 0.20	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Fallah 2019	P < 0.001	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Fallah 2019	P = 0.006	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Fallah 2019	P = 0.75	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune inflammation	Pan 2024	P < 0.05	positive summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
immune inflammation	Pan 2024	P < 0.01	positive summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
immune inflammation	Pan 2024	P > 0.05	positive summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
immune inflammation	Pan 2024	P < 0.05	positive summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
immune inflammation	Pan 2024	P < 0.01	positive summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
immune inflammation	Pan 2024	P < 0.001	positive summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
dosing pharmacokinetics	Moccia 2019	P < 0.05	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
dosing pharmacokinetics	Moccia 2019	P = 0.034	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
dosing pharmacokinetics	Moccia 2019	P = 0.021	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
dosing pharmacokinetics	Moccia 2019	P < 0.001	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
dosing pharmacokinetics	Moccia 2019	P = 0.049	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
dosing pharmacokinetics	Moccia 2019	P = 0.012	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
longevity	Philippou 2025	P = 0.07	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Philippou 2025	P < 0.00001	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Philippou 2025	P < 0.00001	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Philippou 2025	P = 0.03	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Philippou 2025	P < 0.00001	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Philippou 2025	P = 0.10	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024	P = 0.550	unclear summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024	P = 0.306	unclear summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024	P = 0.031	unclear summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024	P > 0.05	unclear summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024	P = 0.509	unclear summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024	P = 0.143	unclear summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
mortality survival	Bergqvist 2021	P = 0.01	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
mortality survival	Bergqvist 2021	P = 0.821	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
mortality survival	Bergqvist 2021	P = 0.657	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
mortality survival	Bergqvist 2021	P = 0.727	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023	P = 0.37	mixed summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023	P = 0.33	mixed summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023	P = 0.33	mixed summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023	P = 0.37	mixed summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023	P = 0.33	mixed summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023	P = 0.37	mixed summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Alter 2018	P = 0.62	unclear summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
contextual other	Alter 2018	P = 0.10	unclear summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
contextual other	Alter 2018	P = 0.62	unclear summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
contextual other	Alter 2018	P > 0.6	unclear summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains unclear
dosing pharmacokinetics	Derosa 2019	P < 0.05	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Derosa 2019	P < 0.05	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Derosa 2019	P < 0.01	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Derosa 2019	P < 0.05	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Derosa 2019	P < 0.05	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Derosa 2019	P < 0.05	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Pravst 2020	P = 0.002	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Pravst 2020	P = 0.129	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
contextual other	Pravst 2020	P > 0.05	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
contextual other	Pravst 2020	P > 0.05	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
contextual other	Pravst 2020	P = 0.021	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Pravst 2020	P = 0.777	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2021	P = 0.006	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2021	P = 0.014	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2021	P = 0.98	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2021	P > 0.0001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2021	P = 0.01	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2021	P = 0.01	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
longevity	Alehagen 2015	P = 0.0003	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2015	P = 0.04	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2015	P = 0.0004	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2015	P = 0.0003	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2015	P = 0.02	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
longevity	Alehagen 2015	P = 0.04	positive summary	direct	A1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
mortality survival	Wu 2021	P = 0.010	mixed summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
mortality survival	Wu 2021	P = 0.01	mixed summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
mortality survival	Wu 2021	P < 0.0002	mixed summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
mortality survival	Wu 2021	P = 0.003	mixed summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
mortality survival	Wu 2021	P = 0.03	mixed summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
mortality survival	Wu 2021	P < 0.0001	mixed summary	review	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
mortality survival	Papagiannakis 2025	P = 0.08	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
mortality survival	Papagiannakis 2025	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
mortality survival	Papagiannakis 2025	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
mortality survival	Papagiannakis 2025	P = 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
mortality survival	Papagiannakis 2025	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
mortality survival	Papagiannakis 2025	P = 0.064	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023	P < 0.001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023	P < 0.001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023	P < 0.001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023	P < 0.001	significant statistic	review	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Barootchi 2025	P = 0.059	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
contextual other	Barootchi 2025	P = 0.310	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
contextual other	Barootchi 2025	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Barootchi 2025	P = 0.004	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Barootchi 2025	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Barootchi 2025	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Mei 2026	—	unclear	review	B2	unclear effect on contextual other
mortality survival	Kollias 2021	—	unclear	review	B2	unclear effect on mortality survival
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2022	P = 0.01	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2022	P = 0.036	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2022	P = 0.027	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2022	P = 0.049	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2022	P = 0.036	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2022	P = 0.027	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024	P = 0.03	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024	P < 0.04	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024	P = 0.023	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024	P = 0.53	null summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024	P = 0.04	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024	P = 0.042	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
longevity	Kow 2021	—	unclear	review	B2	unclear effect on longevity
contextual other	Scheen 2020	P = 0.0028	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Scheen 2020	P = 0.0237	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Scheen 2020	P < 0.05	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Scheen 2020	P = 0.0028	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Scheen 2020	P = 0.0237	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
contextual other	Scheen 2020	P = 0.001	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
longevity	Argamany 2019	P = 0.0046	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
longevity	Argamany 2019	P < 0.001	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
longevity	Argamany 2019	P = 0.0085	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
longevity	Argamany 2019	P = 0.583	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
longevity	Argamany 2019	P = 0.033	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
longevity	Argamany 2019	P = 0.392	mixed summary	indirect	B2	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Alehagen 2022b	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
immune	Alehagen 2022b	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
immune	Alehagen 2022b	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
immune	Alehagen 2022b	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
immune	Alehagen 2022b	P < 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
immune	Alehagen 2022b	P = 0.001	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Diaz-Castro 2020	P < 0.05	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Diaz-Castro 2020	P < 0.05	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Diaz-Castro 2020	P < 0.05	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
contextual other	Diaz-Castro 2020	P < 0.05	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Dludla 2020	P < 0.00001	significant statistic	review	B1	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Dludla 2020	P = 0.07	null summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Dludla 2020	P < 0.00001	significant statistic	review	B1	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Dludla 2020	P = 0.37	null summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Dludla 2020	P = 0.07	null summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains null
dosing pharmacokinetics	Dludla 2020	P < 0.00001	significant statistic	review	B1	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
immune	Zhai 2017	—	unclear	review	B1	unclear effect on immune
mortality survival	Fladerer 2023	—	unclear	indirect	B2	unclear effect on mortality survival
longevity	Permana 2021	P < 0.00001	significant statistic	review	B1	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
longevity	Permana 2021	P = 0.87	null summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains null
longevity	Permana 2021	P = 0.415	null summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains null
longevity	Permana 2021	P = 0.013	significant statistic	review	B1	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
longevity	Permana 2021	P < 0.00001	significant statistic	review	B1	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
longevity	Permana 2021	P = 0.87	null summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains null
cardiometabolic	Zhang 2026	P = 0.006	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
cardiometabolic	Zhang 2026	P < 0.001	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
cardiometabolic	Zhang 2026	P = 0.001	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
cardiometabolic	Zhang 2026	P = 0.003	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
cardiometabolic	Zhang 2026	P = 0.013	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
cardiometabolic	Zhang 2026	P = 0.013	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
contextual other	Alehagen 2019	P < 0.01	significant statistic	indirect	B2	significant statistic; source-level direction remains null
immune	Jorat 2019	P < 0.001	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Jorat 2019	P < 0.001	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Jorat 2019	P = 0.001	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Jorat 2019	P < 0.001	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
cardiometabolic	Zhang 2018	P = 0.020	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
cardiometabolic	Zhang 2018	P = 0.016	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
cardiometabolic	Zhang 2018	P < 0.001	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
cardiometabolic	Zhang 2018	P = 0.009	mixed summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains mixed
immune	Alimohammadi 2021	—	unclear	review	B1	unclear effect on immune
immune	Dahri 2019	P = 0.011	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
immune	Dahri 2019	P = 0.044	positive summary	review	B1	reported statistic; source summary remains positive
immune	Xu 2022	—	unclear	review	B1	unclear effect on immune
immune	Rahmani 2018	—	unclear	review	B1	unclear effect on immune
longevity	Saadi 2021	—	unclear	review	B1	unclear effect on longevity
immune	Mojaver 2025	—	unclear	direct	A1	unclear effect on immune

Table 3: Cross-Domain Tensions

Tension kind	Severity	source A	source B	Outcome class	Summary	Practical implication
null vs positive	3	Angelopoulos 2023	Kiani 2024	dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023 (null) vs Kiani 2024 (unclear) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Angelopoulos 2023	Alehagen 2024	dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023 (null) vs Alehagen 2024 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Angelopoulos 2023	Greenlee 2025	dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023 (null) vs Greenlee 2025 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Angelopoulos 2023	Bagheri 2025	dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023 (null) vs Bagheri 2025 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Angelopoulos 2023	Yeung 2015	dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023 (null) vs Yeung 2015 (unclear) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Angelopoulos 2023	Jorat 2018	dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023 (null) vs Jorat 2018 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Angelopoulos 2023	Moccia 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023 (null) vs Moccia 2019 (mixed) on dosing pharmacokinetics	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Angelopoulos 2023	Derosa 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023 (null) vs Derosa 2019 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Angelopoulos 2023	Dludla 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023 (null) vs Dludla 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Angelopoulos 2023	Alehagen 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023 (null) vs Alehagen 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Angelopoulos 2023	Alehagen 2021	dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023 (null) vs Alehagen 2021 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Angelopoulos 2023	Alehagen 2022	dosing pharmacokinetics	Angelopoulos 2023 (null) vs Alehagen 2022 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Alehagen 2023	Symvoulidis 2023	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Alehagen 2023	Shang 2024	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Shang 2024 (unclear) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2023	Yu 2024	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Yu 2024 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2023	Barootchi 2025	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Barootchi 2025 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Alehagen 2023	Mei 2026	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Mei 2026 (unclear) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2023	Xu 2018	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Xu 2018 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2023	Magno 2018	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Magno 2018 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Alehagen 2023	Alter 2018	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Alter 2018 (unclear) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Alehagen 2023	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019 (positive) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Alehagen 2023	Liao 2019	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Liao 2019 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2023	Alehagen 2019	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Alehagen 2019 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2023	Diaz-Castro 2020	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2023	Pravst 2020	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Pravst 2020 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Alehagen 2023	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Alehagen 2023 (null) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Symvoulidis 2023	Shang 2024	contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) vs Shang 2024 (unclear) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Symvoulidis 2023	Yu 2024	contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) vs Yu 2024 (null) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Symvoulidis 2023	Barootchi 2025	contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) vs Barootchi 2025 (null) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Symvoulidis 2023	Mei 2026	contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) vs Mei 2026 (unclear) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Symvoulidis 2023	Xu 2018	contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) vs Xu 2018 (null) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Symvoulidis 2023	Magno 2018	contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) vs Magno 2018 (null) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Symvoulidis 2023	Alter 2018	contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) vs Alter 2018 (unclear) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Symvoulidis 2023	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) vs Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019 (positive) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Symvoulidis 2023	Liao 2019	contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) vs Liao 2019 (mixed) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Symvoulidis 2023	Alehagen 2019	contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) vs Alehagen 2019 (null) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Symvoulidis 2023	Diaz-Castro 2020	contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) vs Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Symvoulidis 2023	Pravst 2020	contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) vs Pravst 2020 (null) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Symvoulidis 2023	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Symvoulidis 2023 (mixed) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Varnousfaderani 2023	Liu 2016	immune	Varnousfaderani 2023 (mixed) vs Liu 2016 (mixed) on immune	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Varnousfaderani 2023	Zhai 2017	immune	Varnousfaderani 2023 (mixed) vs Zhai 2017 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Varnousfaderani 2023	Fallah 2019	immune	Varnousfaderani 2023 (mixed) vs Fallah 2019 (mixed) on immune	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Varnousfaderani 2023	Alehagen 2022b	immune	Varnousfaderani 2023 (mixed) vs Alehagen 2022b (null) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Varnousfaderani 2023	Rahmani 2018	immune	Varnousfaderani 2023 (mixed) vs Rahmani 2018 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Varnousfaderani 2023	Dahri 2019	immune	Varnousfaderani 2023 (mixed) vs Dahri 2019 (positive) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Varnousfaderani 2023	Jorat 2019	immune	Varnousfaderani 2023 (mixed) vs Jorat 2019 (mixed) on immune	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Varnousfaderani 2023	Xu 2022	immune	Varnousfaderani 2023 (mixed) vs Xu 2022 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Varnousfaderani 2023	Alimohammadi 2021	immune	Varnousfaderani 2023 (mixed) vs Alimohammadi 2021 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Varnousfaderani 2023	Mojaver 2025	immune	Varnousfaderani 2023 (mixed) vs Mojaver 2025 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Fladerer 2023	Papagiannakis 2025	mortality survival	Fladerer 2023 (unclear) vs Papagiannakis 2025 (null) on mortality survival	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Fladerer 2023	Wu 2021	mortality survival	Fladerer 2023 (unclear) vs Wu 2021 (mixed) on mortality survival	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Fladerer 2023	Kollias 2021	mortality survival	Fladerer 2023 (unclear) vs Kollias 2021 (unclear) on mortality survival	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Fladerer 2023	Bergqvist 2021	mortality survival	Fladerer 2023 (unclear) vs Bergqvist 2021 (null) on mortality survival	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Kiani 2024	Alehagen 2024	dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024 (unclear) vs Alehagen 2024 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Kiani 2024	Greenlee 2025	dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024 (unclear) vs Greenlee 2025 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Kiani 2024	Bagheri 2025	dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024 (unclear) vs Bagheri 2025 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Kiani 2024	Yeung 2015	dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024 (unclear) vs Yeung 2015 (unclear) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Kiani 2024	Jorat 2018	dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024 (unclear) vs Jorat 2018 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Kiani 2024	Moccia 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024 (unclear) vs Moccia 2019 (mixed) on dosing pharmacokinetics	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Kiani 2024	Derosa 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024 (unclear) vs Derosa 2019 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Kiani 2024	Dludla 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024 (unclear) vs Dludla 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Kiani 2024	Alehagen 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024 (unclear) vs Alehagen 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Kiani 2024	Alehagen 2021	dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024 (unclear) vs Alehagen 2021 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Kiani 2024	Alehagen 2022	dosing pharmacokinetics	Kiani 2024 (unclear) vs Alehagen 2022 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2024	Greenlee 2025	dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024 (null) vs Greenlee 2025 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2024	Bagheri 2025	dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024 (null) vs Bagheri 2025 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Alehagen 2024	Yeung 2015	dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024 (null) vs Yeung 2015 (unclear) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2024	Jorat 2018	dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024 (null) vs Jorat 2018 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Alehagen 2024	Moccia 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024 (null) vs Moccia 2019 (mixed) on dosing pharmacokinetics	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2024	Derosa 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024 (null) vs Derosa 2019 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2024	Dludla 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024 (null) vs Dludla 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2024	Alehagen 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024 (null) vs Alehagen 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2024	Alehagen 2021	dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024 (null) vs Alehagen 2021 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2024	Alehagen 2022	dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2024 (null) vs Alehagen 2022 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Shang 2024	Yu 2024	contextual other	Shang 2024 (unclear) vs Yu 2024 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Shang 2024	Barootchi 2025	contextual other	Shang 2024 (unclear) vs Barootchi 2025 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Shang 2024	Mei 2026	contextual other	Shang 2024 (unclear) vs Mei 2026 (unclear) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Shang 2024	Xu 2018	contextual other	Shang 2024 (unclear) vs Xu 2018 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Shang 2024	Magno 2018	contextual other	Shang 2024 (unclear) vs Magno 2018 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Shang 2024	Alter 2018	contextual other	Shang 2024 (unclear) vs Alter 2018 (unclear) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Shang 2024	Liao 2019	contextual other	Shang 2024 (unclear) vs Liao 2019 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Shang 2024	Alehagen 2019	contextual other	Shang 2024 (unclear) vs Alehagen 2019 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Shang 2024	Diaz-Castro 2020	contextual other	Shang 2024 (unclear) vs Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Shang 2024	Pravst 2020	contextual other	Shang 2024 (unclear) vs Pravst 2020 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Shang 2024	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Shang 2024 (unclear) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Yu 2024	Barootchi 2025	contextual other	Yu 2024 (null) vs Barootchi 2025 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Yu 2024	Mei 2026	contextual other	Yu 2024 (null) vs Mei 2026 (unclear) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Yu 2024	Xu 2018	contextual other	Yu 2024 (null) vs Xu 2018 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Yu 2024	Magno 2018	contextual other	Yu 2024 (null) vs Magno 2018 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Yu 2024	Alter 2018	contextual other	Yu 2024 (null) vs Alter 2018 (unclear) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Yu 2024	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	contextual other	Yu 2024 (null) vs Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019 (positive) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Yu 2024	Liao 2019	contextual other	Yu 2024 (null) vs Liao 2019 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Yu 2024	Alehagen 2019	contextual other	Yu 2024 (null) vs Alehagen 2019 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Yu 2024	Diaz-Castro 2020	contextual other	Yu 2024 (null) vs Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Yu 2024	Pravst 2020	contextual other	Yu 2024 (null) vs Pravst 2020 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Yu 2024	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Yu 2024 (null) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Xu 2024	Philippou 2025	longevity	Xu 2024 (positive) vs Philippou 2025 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Xu 2024	Alehagen 2015	longevity	Xu 2024 (positive) vs Alehagen 2015 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Xu 2024	Alehagen 2016	longevity	Xu 2024 (positive) vs Alehagen 2016 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Xu 2024	Lei 2017	longevity	Xu 2024 (positive) vs Lei 2017 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Xu 2024	Alehagen 2018	longevity	Xu 2024 (positive) vs Alehagen 2018 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Xu 2024	Argamany 2019	longevity	Xu 2024 (positive) vs Argamany 2019 (mixed) on longevity	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Xu 2024	Permana 2021	longevity	Xu 2024 (positive) vs Permana 2021 (null) on longevity	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Papagiannakis 2025	Phan 2020	mortality survival	Papagiannakis 2025 (null) vs Phan 2020 (positive) on mortality survival	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Papagiannakis 2025	Wu 2021	mortality survival	Papagiannakis 2025 (null) vs Wu 2021 (mixed) on mortality survival	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Papagiannakis 2025	Kollias 2021	mortality survival	Papagiannakis 2025 (null) vs Kollias 2021 (unclear) on mortality survival	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Papagiannakis 2025	Bergqvist 2021	mortality survival	Papagiannakis 2025 (null) vs Bergqvist 2021 (null) on mortality survival	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Barootchi 2025	Mei 2026	contextual other	Barootchi 2025 (null) vs Mei 2026 (unclear) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Barootchi 2025	Xu 2018	contextual other	Barootchi 2025 (null) vs Xu 2018 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Barootchi 2025	Magno 2018	contextual other	Barootchi 2025 (null) vs Magno 2018 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Barootchi 2025	Alter 2018	contextual other	Barootchi 2025 (null) vs Alter 2018 (unclear) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Barootchi 2025	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	contextual other	Barootchi 2025 (null) vs Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019 (positive) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Barootchi 2025	Liao 2019	contextual other	Barootchi 2025 (null) vs Liao 2019 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Barootchi 2025	Alehagen 2019	contextual other	Barootchi 2025 (null) vs Alehagen 2019 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Barootchi 2025	Diaz-Castro 2020	contextual other	Barootchi 2025 (null) vs Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Barootchi 2025	Pravst 2020	contextual other	Barootchi 2025 (null) vs Pravst 2020 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Barootchi 2025	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Barootchi 2025 (null) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Philippou 2025	Alehagen 2015	longevity	Philippou 2025 (positive) vs Alehagen 2015 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Philippou 2025	Alehagen 2016	longevity	Philippou 2025 (positive) vs Alehagen 2016 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Philippou 2025	Lei 2017	longevity	Philippou 2025 (positive) vs Lei 2017 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Philippou 2025	Alehagen 2018	longevity	Philippou 2025 (positive) vs Alehagen 2018 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Philippou 2025	Argamany 2019	longevity	Philippou 2025 (positive) vs Argamany 2019 (mixed) on longevity	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Philippou 2025	Permana 2021	longevity	Philippou 2025 (positive) vs Permana 2021 (null) on longevity	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Greenlee 2025	Bagheri 2025	dosing pharmacokinetics	Greenlee 2025 (null) vs Bagheri 2025 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Greenlee 2025	Yeung 2015	dosing pharmacokinetics	Greenlee 2025 (null) vs Yeung 2015 (unclear) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Greenlee 2025	Jorat 2018	dosing pharmacokinetics	Greenlee 2025 (null) vs Jorat 2018 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Greenlee 2025	Moccia 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Greenlee 2025 (null) vs Moccia 2019 (mixed) on dosing pharmacokinetics	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Greenlee 2025	Derosa 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Greenlee 2025 (null) vs Derosa 2019 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Greenlee 2025	Dludla 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Greenlee 2025 (null) vs Dludla 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Greenlee 2025	Alehagen 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Greenlee 2025 (null) vs Alehagen 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Greenlee 2025	Alehagen 2021	dosing pharmacokinetics	Greenlee 2025 (null) vs Alehagen 2021 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Greenlee 2025	Alehagen 2022	dosing pharmacokinetics	Greenlee 2025 (null) vs Alehagen 2022 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Bagheri 2025	Yeung 2015	dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025 (null) vs Yeung 2015 (unclear) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Bagheri 2025	Jorat 2018	dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025 (null) vs Jorat 2018 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Bagheri 2025	Moccia 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025 (null) vs Moccia 2019 (mixed) on dosing pharmacokinetics	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Bagheri 2025	Derosa 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025 (null) vs Derosa 2019 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Bagheri 2025	Dludla 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025 (null) vs Dludla 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Bagheri 2025	Alehagen 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025 (null) vs Alehagen 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Bagheri 2025	Alehagen 2021	dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025 (null) vs Alehagen 2021 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Bagheri 2025	Alehagen 2022	dosing pharmacokinetics	Bagheri 2025 (null) vs Alehagen 2022 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Mei 2026	Xu 2018	contextual other	Mei 2026 (unclear) vs Xu 2018 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Mei 2026	Magno 2018	contextual other	Mei 2026 (unclear) vs Magno 2018 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Mei 2026	Alter 2018	contextual other	Mei 2026 (unclear) vs Alter 2018 (unclear) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Mei 2026	Liao 2019	contextual other	Mei 2026 (unclear) vs Liao 2019 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Mei 2026	Alehagen 2019	contextual other	Mei 2026 (unclear) vs Alehagen 2019 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Mei 2026	Diaz-Castro 2020	contextual other	Mei 2026 (unclear) vs Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Mei 2026	Pravst 2020	contextual other	Mei 2026 (unclear) vs Pravst 2020 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Mei 2026	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Mei 2026 (unclear) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Spiegeleer 2025	Zhang 2018	cardiometabolic	Spiegeleer 2025 (negative) vs Zhang 2018 (mixed) on cardiometabolic	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	5	Spiegeleer 2025	Zhang 2026	cardiometabolic	Spiegeleer 2025 (negative) vs Zhang 2026 (positive) on cardiometabolic	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Donnino 2015	Zhang 2018	cardiometabolic	Donnino 2015 (unclear) vs Zhang 2018 (mixed) on cardiometabolic	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Yeung 2015	Jorat 2018	dosing pharmacokinetics	Yeung 2015 (unclear) vs Jorat 2018 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Yeung 2015	Moccia 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Yeung 2015 (unclear) vs Moccia 2019 (mixed) on dosing pharmacokinetics	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Yeung 2015	Derosa 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Yeung 2015 (unclear) vs Derosa 2019 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Yeung 2015	Dludla 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Yeung 2015 (unclear) vs Dludla 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Yeung 2015	Alehagen 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Yeung 2015 (unclear) vs Alehagen 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Yeung 2015	Alehagen 2021	dosing pharmacokinetics	Yeung 2015 (unclear) vs Alehagen 2021 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Yeung 2015	Alehagen 2022	dosing pharmacokinetics	Yeung 2015 (unclear) vs Alehagen 2022 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2015	Alehagen 2016	longevity	Alehagen 2015 (positive) vs Alehagen 2016 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2015	Lei 2017	longevity	Alehagen 2015 (positive) vs Lei 2017 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2015	Alehagen 2018	longevity	Alehagen 2015 (positive) vs Alehagen 2018 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Alehagen 2015	Argamany 2019	longevity	Alehagen 2015 (positive) vs Argamany 2019 (mixed) on longevity	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Alehagen 2015	Permana 2021	longevity	Alehagen 2015 (positive) vs Permana 2021 (null) on longevity	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2016	Lei 2017	longevity	Alehagen 2016 (positive) vs Lei 2017 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2016	Alehagen 2018	longevity	Alehagen 2016 (positive) vs Alehagen 2018 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Alehagen 2016	Argamany 2019	longevity	Alehagen 2016 (positive) vs Argamany 2019 (mixed) on longevity	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Alehagen 2016	Permana 2021	longevity	Alehagen 2016 (positive) vs Permana 2021 (null) on longevity	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Liu 2016	Zhai 2017	immune	Liu 2016 (mixed) vs Zhai 2017 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Liu 2016	Fallah 2019	immune	Liu 2016 (mixed) vs Fallah 2019 (mixed) on immune	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Liu 2016	Alehagen 2022b	immune	Liu 2016 (mixed) vs Alehagen 2022b (null) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Liu 2016	Rahmani 2018	immune	Liu 2016 (mixed) vs Rahmani 2018 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Liu 2016	Dahri 2019	immune	Liu 2016 (mixed) vs Dahri 2019 (positive) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Liu 2016	Jorat 2019	immune	Liu 2016 (mixed) vs Jorat 2019 (mixed) on immune	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Liu 2016	Xu 2022	immune	Liu 2016 (mixed) vs Xu 2022 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Liu 2016	Alimohammadi 2021	immune	Liu 2016 (mixed) vs Alimohammadi 2021 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Liu 2016	Mojaver 2025	immune	Liu 2016 (mixed) vs Mojaver 2025 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Zhai 2017	Fallah 2019	immune	Zhai 2017 (unclear) vs Fallah 2019 (mixed) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Zhai 2017	Alehagen 2022b	immune	Zhai 2017 (unclear) vs Alehagen 2022b (null) on immune	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Zhai 2017	Rahmani 2018	immune	Zhai 2017 (unclear) vs Rahmani 2018 (unclear) on immune	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Zhai 2017	Jorat 2019	immune	Zhai 2017 (unclear) vs Jorat 2019 (mixed) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Zhai 2017	Xu 2022	immune	Zhai 2017 (unclear) vs Xu 2022 (unclear) on immune	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Zhai 2017	Alimohammadi 2021	immune	Zhai 2017 (unclear) vs Alimohammadi 2021 (unclear) on immune	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Zhai 2017	Mojaver 2025	immune	Zhai 2017 (unclear) vs Mojaver 2025 (unclear) on immune	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Lei 2017	Alehagen 2018	longevity	Lei 2017 (positive) vs Alehagen 2018 (positive) on longevity	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Lei 2017	Argamany 2019	longevity	Lei 2017 (positive) vs Argamany 2019 (mixed) on longevity	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Lei 2017	Permana 2021	longevity	Lei 2017 (positive) vs Permana 2021 (null) on longevity	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Xu 2018	Magno 2018	contextual other	Xu 2018 (null) vs Magno 2018 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Xu 2018	Alter 2018	contextual other	Xu 2018 (null) vs Alter 2018 (unclear) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Xu 2018	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	contextual other	Xu 2018 (null) vs Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019 (positive) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Xu 2018	Liao 2019	contextual other	Xu 2018 (null) vs Liao 2019 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Xu 2018	Alehagen 2019	contextual other	Xu 2018 (null) vs Alehagen 2019 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Xu 2018	Diaz-Castro 2020	contextual other	Xu 2018 (null) vs Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Xu 2018	Pravst 2020	contextual other	Xu 2018 (null) vs Pravst 2020 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Xu 2018	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Xu 2018 (null) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Alehagen 2018	Argamany 2019	longevity	Alehagen 2018 (positive) vs Argamany 2019 (mixed) on longevity	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Alehagen 2018	Permana 2021	longevity	Alehagen 2018 (positive) vs Permana 2021 (null) on longevity	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Magno 2018	Alter 2018	contextual other	Magno 2018 (null) vs Alter 2018 (unclear) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Magno 2018	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	contextual other	Magno 2018 (null) vs Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019 (positive) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Magno 2018	Liao 2019	contextual other	Magno 2018 (null) vs Liao 2019 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Magno 2018	Alehagen 2019	contextual other	Magno 2018 (null) vs Alehagen 2019 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Magno 2018	Diaz-Castro 2020	contextual other	Magno 2018 (null) vs Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Magno 2018	Pravst 2020	contextual other	Magno 2018 (null) vs Pravst 2020 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Magno 2018	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Magno 2018 (null) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Alter 2018	Liao 2019	contextual other	Alter 2018 (unclear) vs Liao 2019 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Alter 2018	Alehagen 2019	contextual other	Alter 2018 (unclear) vs Alehagen 2019 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Alter 2018	Diaz-Castro 2020	contextual other	Alter 2018 (unclear) vs Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Alter 2018	Pravst 2020	contextual other	Alter 2018 (unclear) vs Pravst 2020 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Alter 2018	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Alter 2018 (unclear) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Jorat 2018	Moccia 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Jorat 2018 (null) vs Moccia 2019 (mixed) on dosing pharmacokinetics	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Jorat 2018	Derosa 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Jorat 2018 (null) vs Derosa 2019 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Jorat 2018	Dludla 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Jorat 2018 (null) vs Dludla 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Jorat 2018	Alehagen 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Jorat 2018 (null) vs Alehagen 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Jorat 2018	Alehagen 2021	dosing pharmacokinetics	Jorat 2018 (null) vs Alehagen 2021 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Jorat 2018	Alehagen 2022	dosing pharmacokinetics	Jorat 2018 (null) vs Alehagen 2022 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Upadya 2019	Gu 2019	safety comorbidity	Upadya 2019 (null) vs Gu 2019 (unclear) on safety comorbidity	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Upadya 2019	Mortensen 2019	safety comorbidity	Upadya 2019 (null) vs Mortensen 2019 (null) on safety comorbidity	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Fallah 2019	Alehagen 2022b	immune	Fallah 2019 (mixed) vs Alehagen 2022b (null) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Fallah 2019	Rahmani 2018	immune	Fallah 2019 (mixed) vs Rahmani 2018 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Fallah 2019	Dahri 2019	immune	Fallah 2019 (mixed) vs Dahri 2019 (positive) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Fallah 2019	Jorat 2019	immune	Fallah 2019 (mixed) vs Jorat 2019 (mixed) on immune	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Fallah 2019	Xu 2022	immune	Fallah 2019 (mixed) vs Xu 2022 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Fallah 2019	Alimohammadi 2021	immune	Fallah 2019 (mixed) vs Alimohammadi 2021 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Fallah 2019	Mojaver 2025	immune	Fallah 2019 (mixed) vs Mojaver 2025 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Moccia 2019	Derosa 2019	dosing pharmacokinetics	Moccia 2019 (mixed) vs Derosa 2019 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Moccia 2019	Dludla 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Moccia 2019 (mixed) vs Dludla 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Moccia 2019	Alehagen 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Moccia 2019 (mixed) vs Alehagen 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Moccia 2019	Alehagen 2021	dosing pharmacokinetics	Moccia 2019 (mixed) vs Alehagen 2021 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Moccia 2019	Alehagen 2022	dosing pharmacokinetics	Moccia 2019 (mixed) vs Alehagen 2022 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Argamany 2019	Permana 2021	longevity	Argamany 2019 (mixed) vs Permana 2021 (null) on longevity	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Argamany 2019	Kow 2021	longevity	Argamany 2019 (mixed) vs Kow 2021 (unclear) on longevity	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Argamany 2019	Saadi 2021	longevity	Argamany 2019 (mixed) vs Saadi 2021 (unclear) on longevity	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Derosa 2019	Dludla 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Derosa 2019 (null) vs Dludla 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Derosa 2019	Alehagen 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Derosa 2019 (null) vs Alehagen 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Derosa 2019	Alehagen 2021	dosing pharmacokinetics	Derosa 2019 (null) vs Alehagen 2021 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Derosa 2019	Alehagen 2022	dosing pharmacokinetics	Derosa 2019 (null) vs Alehagen 2022 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	Liao 2019	contextual other	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019 (positive) vs Liao 2019 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	Alehagen 2019	contextual other	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019 (positive) vs Alehagen 2019 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	Diaz-Castro 2020	contextual other	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019 (positive) vs Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	Pravst 2020	contextual other	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019 (positive) vs Pravst 2020 (null) on contextual other	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019 (positive) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Liao 2019	Alehagen 2019	contextual other	Liao 2019 (mixed) vs Alehagen 2019 (null) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Liao 2019	Diaz-Castro 2020	contextual other	Liao 2019 (mixed) vs Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Liao 2019	Pravst 2020	contextual other	Liao 2019 (mixed) vs Pravst 2020 (null) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Liao 2019	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Liao 2019 (mixed) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2019	Diaz-Castro 2020	contextual other	Alehagen 2019 (null) vs Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2019	Pravst 2020	contextual other	Alehagen 2019 (null) vs Pravst 2020 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Alehagen 2019	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Alehagen 2019 (null) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Gu 2019	Mortensen 2019	safety comorbidity	Gu 2019 (unclear) vs Mortensen 2019 (null) on safety comorbidity	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Diaz-Castro 2020	Pravst 2020	contextual other	Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) vs Pravst 2020 (null) on contextual other	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Diaz-Castro 2020	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Diaz-Castro 2020 (null) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Pravst 2020	Scheen 2020	contextual other	Pravst 2020 (null) vs Scheen 2020 (mixed) on contextual other	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Phan 2020	Wu 2021	mortality survival	Phan 2020 (positive) vs Wu 2021 (mixed) on mortality survival	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Phan 2020	Bergqvist 2021	mortality survival	Phan 2020 (positive) vs Bergqvist 2021 (null) on mortality survival	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Dludla 2020	Alehagen 2020	dosing pharmacokinetics	Dludla 2020 (null) vs Alehagen 2020 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Dludla 2020	Alehagen 2021	dosing pharmacokinetics	Dludla 2020 (null) vs Alehagen 2021 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Dludla 2020	Alehagen 2022	dosing pharmacokinetics	Dludla 2020 (null) vs Alehagen 2022 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2020	Alehagen 2021	dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2020 (null) vs Alehagen 2021 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2020	Alehagen 2022	dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2020 (null) vs Alehagen 2022 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Permana 2021	Kow 2021	longevity	Permana 2021 (null) vs Kow 2021 (unclear) on longevity	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Permana 2021	Saadi 2021	longevity	Permana 2021 (null) vs Saadi 2021 (unclear) on longevity	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Alehagen 2021	Alehagen 2022	dosing pharmacokinetics	Alehagen 2021 (null) vs Alehagen 2022 (null) on dosing pharmacokinetics	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Wu 2021	Kollias 2021	mortality survival	Wu 2021 (mixed) vs Kollias 2021 (unclear) on mortality survival	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Wu 2021	Bergqvist 2021	mortality survival	Wu 2021 (mixed) vs Bergqvist 2021 (null) on mortality survival	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Kollias 2021	Bergqvist 2021	mortality survival	Kollias 2021 (unclear) vs Bergqvist 2021 (null) on mortality survival	null vs positive (notable)
agreement	1	Kow 2021	Saadi 2021	longevity	Kow 2021 (unclear) vs Saadi 2021 (unclear) on longevity	agreement (minor)
null vs positive	3	Alehagen 2022b	Rahmani 2018	immune	Alehagen 2022b (null) vs Rahmani 2018 (unclear) on immune	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Alehagen 2022b	Dahri 2019	immune	Alehagen 2022b (null) vs Dahri 2019 (positive) on immune	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Alehagen 2022b	Jorat 2019	immune	Alehagen 2022b (null) vs Jorat 2019 (mixed) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
null vs positive	3	Alehagen 2022b	Xu 2022	immune	Alehagen 2022b (null) vs Xu 2022 (unclear) on immune	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Alehagen 2022b	Alimohammadi 2021	immune	Alehagen 2022b (null) vs Alimohammadi 2021 (unclear) on immune	null vs positive (notable)
null vs positive	3	Alehagen 2022b	Mojaver 2025	immune	Alehagen 2022b (null) vs Mojaver 2025 (unclear) on immune	null vs positive (notable)
disagreement	4	Rahmani 2018	Jorat 2019	immune	Rahmani 2018 (unclear) vs Jorat 2019 (mixed) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Rahmani 2018	Xu 2022	immune	Rahmani 2018 (unclear) vs Xu 2022 (unclear) on immune	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Rahmani 2018	Alimohammadi 2021	immune	Rahmani 2018 (unclear) vs Alimohammadi 2021 (unclear) on immune	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Rahmani 2018	Mojaver 2025	immune	Rahmani 2018 (unclear) vs Mojaver 2025 (unclear) on immune	agreement (minor)
disagreement	4	Dahri 2019	Jorat 2019	immune	Dahri 2019 (positive) vs Jorat 2019 (mixed) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Zhang 2018	Zhang 2026	cardiometabolic	Zhang 2018 (mixed) vs Zhang 2026 (positive) on cardiometabolic	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Jorat 2019	Xu 2022	immune	Jorat 2019 (mixed) vs Xu 2022 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Jorat 2019	Alimohammadi 2021	immune	Jorat 2019 (mixed) vs Alimohammadi 2021 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
disagreement	4	Jorat 2019	Mojaver 2025	immune	Jorat 2019 (mixed) vs Mojaver 2025 (unclear) on immune	disagreement (load-bearing)
agreement	1	Xu 2022	Alimohammadi 2021	immune	Xu 2022 (unclear) vs Alimohammadi 2021 (unclear) on immune	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Xu 2022	Mojaver 2025	immune	Xu 2022 (unclear) vs Mojaver 2025 (unclear) on immune	agreement (minor)
agreement	1	Alimohammadi 2021	Mojaver 2025	immune	Alimohammadi 2021 (unclear) vs Mojaver 2025 (unclear) on immune	agreement (minor)

Table 4 (supplemental): Design-Level Evidence Weighting Heuristic

Per-domain grades are derived from each study's evidence tier (A1/A2/B1/B2/C1/C2) — they capture design-level limitations, NOT a formal per-paper risk-of-bias assessment from the source text. Domains follow design-family categories for randomized, observational, animal, and systematic-review evidence; n/a indicates the domain is not meaningful for that design (e.g. blinding for an observational cohort). The Weight in synthesis column is the qualitative weighting the synthesis applies to each source — derived from tier × directness × overall RoB.

Citation	Tier	Tool	Allocation	Blinding	Attrition	Outcome measurement	Reporting	Confounding control	Generalizability	Overall RoB	Weight in synthesis	Effect direction notes
Liu 2016	A1	Cochrane RoB-2	low	low	moderate	low	low	low	moderate	low	load-bearing (direct clinical RCT)	internal contradiction across endpoints
Xu 2024	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	positive effect — see Tables 1/2
Spiegeleer 2025	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	negative effect — see Tables 1/2
Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	positive effect — see Tables 1/2
Shang 2024	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	signed claims without significance signal
Upadya 2019	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Alehagen 2016	A1	Cochrane RoB-2	low	low	moderate	low	low	low	moderate	low	load-bearing (direct clinical RCT)	positive effect — see Tables 1/2
Jorat 2018	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Alehagen 2020	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Donnino 2015	A1	Cochrane RoB-2	low	low	moderate	low	low	low	moderate	low	load-bearing (direct clinical RCT)	signed claims without significance signal
Phan 2020	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	positive effect — see Tables 1/2
Gu 2019	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	signed claims without significance signal
Xu 2018	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Alehagen 2018	A1	Cochrane RoB-2	low	low	moderate	low	low	low	moderate	low	load-bearing (direct clinical RCT)	positive effect — see Tables 1/2
Bagheri 2025	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Alehagen 2023	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Varnousfaderani 2023	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	internal contradiction across endpoints
Mortensen 2019	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Greenlee 2025	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Yeung 2015	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	signed claims without significance signal
Yu 2024	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Lei 2017	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	positive effect — see Tables 1/2
Magno 2018	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Liao 2019	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	internal contradiction across endpoints
Fallah 2019	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	internal contradiction across endpoints
Pan 2024	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	positive effect — see Tables 1/2
Moccia 2019	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	internal contradiction across endpoints
Philippou 2025	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	positive effect — see Tables 1/2
Kiani 2024	A1	Cochrane RoB-2	low	low	moderate	low	low	low	moderate	low	load-bearing (direct clinical RCT)	signed claims without significance signal
Bergqvist 2021	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Symvoulidis 2023	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	internal contradiction across endpoints
Alter 2018	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	signed claims without significance signal
Derosa 2019	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Pravst 2020	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Alehagen 2021	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Alehagen 2015	A1	Cochrane RoB-2	low	low	moderate	low	low	low	moderate	low	load-bearing (direct clinical RCT)	positive effect — see Tables 1/2
Wu 2021	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	internal contradiction across endpoints
Papagiannakis 2025	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Angelopoulos 2023	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Barootchi 2025	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Mei 2026	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	signed claims without significance signal
Kollias 2021	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	signed claims without significance signal
Alehagen 2022	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Alehagen 2024	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Kow 2021	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	signed claims without significance signal
Scheen 2020	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	internal contradiction across endpoints
Argamany 2019	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	internal contradiction across endpoints
Alehagen 2022b	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Diaz-Castro 2020	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Dludla 2020	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Zhai 2017	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	signed claims without significance signal
Fladerer 2023	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	signed claims without significance signal
Permana 2021	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Zhang 2026	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	positive effect — see Tables 1/2
Alehagen 2019	B2	ROBINS-I	n/a	n/a	moderate	moderate	moderate	high	moderate	moderate	contextual (observational signal)	primary endpoint did not reach significance
Jorat 2019	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	internal contradiction across endpoints
Zhang 2018	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	internal contradiction across endpoints
Alimohammadi 2021	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	signed claims without significance signal
Dahri 2019	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	positive effect — see Tables 1/2
Xu 2022	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	signed claims without significance signal
Rahmani 2018	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	signed claims without significance signal
Saadi 2021	B1	AMSTAR-2 (review)	unclear	unclear	unclear	unclear	moderate	moderate	moderate	unclear	supporting (synthesis evidence)	signed claims without significance signal
Mojaver 2025	A1	Cochrane RoB-2	low	low	moderate	low	low	low	moderate	low	load-bearing (direct clinical RCT)	signed claims without significance signal

Table 5 (supplemental): Per-Paper Numeric Index

Top-N quantitative claims per paper — the underlying corpus numerics that power Q2 trace and Q9 density. One row per (paper × claim) tuple, prioritised by claim type (p-value > percentage > ratio > unit-value).

Citation	Section	Type	Value	Units
Liu 2016	abstract	p-value	P = 0.04	—
Liu 2016	discussion	percentage	67.3 %	%
Liu 2016	abstract	unit value	12 weeks	weeks
Liu 2016	abstract	p-value	P < 0.01	—
Liu 2016	abstract	p-value	P < 0.01	—
Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	results	p-value	P < 0.00001	—
Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	results	percentage	40%	%
Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	results	percentage	40%	%
Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	results	percentage	95%	%
Bielecka-Dabrowa 2019	results	percentage	95%	%
Alehagen 2016	results	p-value	P = 0.040	—
Alehagen 2016	results	percentage	14.0%	%
Alehagen 2016	results	unit value	65 μg/L	μg/L
Alehagen 2016	results	unit value	85 μg/L	μg/L
Alehagen 2016	results	percentage	6.0%	%
Donnino 2015	results	p-value	P = 0.41	—
Donnino 2015	results	percentage	58 %	%
Donnino 2015	results	mean ± SD	60 ± 18	—
Donnino 2015	results	sample size	n = 19	—
Donnino 2015	results	sample size	n = 19	—
Phan 2020	discussion	unit value	130 mg/dL	mg/dL
Phan 2020	discussion	unit value	10 mg	mg
Alehagen 2018	abstract	p-value	P = 0.001	—
Alehagen 2018	abstract	percentage	28.1%	%
Alehagen 2018	abstract	unit value	12 years	years
Alehagen 2018	abstract	percentage	38.7%	%
Alehagen 2018	abstract	hazard ratio	HR: 0.59	—
Varnousfaderani 2023	abstract	p-value	P = 0.042	—
Varnousfaderani 2023	results	percentage	0.0%	%
Varnousfaderani 2023	results	unit value	10 weeks	weeks
Varnousfaderani 2023	abstract	confidence interval	95% CI: 0.77, -0.01	95%CI
Varnousfaderani 2023	abstract	confidence interval	95% CI: 1.55, -0.79	95%CI
Greenlee 2025	abstract	unit value	300 mg/day	mg/day
Lei 2017	abstract	p-value	P = 0.02	—
Lei 2017	abstract	percentage	95%	%
Lei 2017	abstract	risk ratio	RR = 0.69	—
Lei 2017	abstract	percentage	0%	%
Lei 2017	results	risk ratio	RR = 0.69	—
Fallah 2019	abstract	p-value	P < 0.001	—
Fallah 2019	abstract	unit value	12 weeks	weeks
Fallah 2019	abstract	mean ± SD	54.921 ± 26.437	—
Fallah 2019	abstract	mean ± SD	126.781 ± 26.437	—
Fallah 2019	abstract	mean ± SD	4.121 ± 1.314	—
Pan 2024	results	unit value	28 days	days
Pan 2024	results	unit value	3 days	days
Moccia 2019	results	p-value	P = 0.034	—
Moccia 2019	abstract	unit value	3 months	months
Moccia 2019	results	unit value	3 months	months
Moccia 2019	results	p-value	P = 0.021	—
Moccia 2019	results	p-value	P < 0.001	—
Philippou 2025	abstract	percentage	21%	%
Philippou 2025	abstract	risk ratio	RR: 0.79	—
Philippou 2025	abstract	confidence interval	95% CI 0.72-0.86	95%CI
Kiani 2024	abstract	p-value	P = 0.550	—
Kiani 2024	discussion	unit value	200 mg	mg
Kiani 2024	abstract	p-value	P = 0.306	—
Kiani 2024	discussion	unit value	100 mg	mg
Kiani 2024	discussion	unit value	7 days	days
Alehagen 2021	results	p-value	P = 0.014	—
Alehagen 2021	results	p-value	P = 0.033	—
Alehagen 2015	abstract	p-value	P = 0.0003	—
Alehagen 2015	results	unit value	10 years	years
Alehagen 2015	abstract	hazard ratio	HR: 0.51	—
Alehagen 2015	abstract	confidence interval	95%CI 0.36-0.74	95%CI
Alehagen 2015	results	hazard ratio	HR: 0.51	—
Alehagen 2024	abstract	p-value	P < 0.04	—
Alehagen 2024	results	sample size	n = 34	—
Alehagen 2024	results	sample size	n = 47	—
Alehagen 2024	results	p-value	P = 0.042	—
Alehagen 2024	results	sample size	n = 47	—
Argamany 2019	discussion	p-value	P < 0.001	—
Argamany 2019	discussion	percentage	13%	%
Argamany 2019	discussion	percentage	21%	%
Alehagen 2022b	results	p-value	P < 0.001	—
Alehagen 2022b	results	unit value	48 months	months
Alehagen 2022b	results	p-value	P = 0.010	—
Alehagen 2022b	results	p-value	P = 0.03	—
Alehagen 2022b	results	unit value	48 months	months
Dludla 2020	abstract	p-value	P = 0.07	—
Dludla 2020	abstract	percentage	51%	%
Dludla 2020	abstract	confidence interval	95% CI: -0.54, -0.08	95%CI
Zhai 2017	results	percentage	95%	%
Zhai 2017	results	percentage	0%	%
Permana 2021	results	p-value	P < 0.00001	—
Permana 2021	results	percentage	0%	%
Permana 2021	results	confidence interval	95% CI 0.50-0.58	95%CI
Permana 2021	results	p-value	P = 0.87	—
Zhang 2026	abstract	p-value	P = 0.006	—
Zhang 2026	abstract	percentage	0.22%	%
Zhang 2026	abstract	unit value	10.07 mg/dL	mg/dL
Zhang 2026	abstract	confidence interval	95% CI: -0.37, -0.06	95%CI
Zhang 2026	abstract	confidence interval	95% CI: -14.75, -5.39	95%CI
Jorat 2019	abstract	p-value	P < 0.001	—
Jorat 2019	abstract	percentage	95%	%
Jorat 2019	abstract	percentage	94.5%	%
Jorat 2019	abstract	percentage	95%	%
Jorat 2019	abstract	p-value	P < 0.001	—
Zhang 2018	abstract	p-value	P = 0.020	—
Zhang 2018	abstract	p-value	P = 0.016	—
Zhang 2018	abstract	p-value	P < 0.001	—
Zhang 2018	abstract	p-value	P = 0.009	—
Alimohammadi 2021	abstract	percentage	95%	%
Alimohammadi 2021	abstract	unit value	100 mg/day	mg/day
Alimohammadi 2021	abstract	unit value	90 days	days
Dahri 2019	abstract	p-value	P = 0.011	—
Dahri 2019	abstract	p-value	P = 0.044	—
Xu 2022	abstract	percentage	95%	%
Xu 2022	abstract	percentage	95%	%
Rahmani 2018	abstract	unit value	12 weeks	weeks
Saadi 2021	abstract	confidence interval	95% CI 0.35 to 0.95	95%CI
Mojaver 2025	abstract	unit value	600 mg/day	mg/day

Additional corpus sources informed the synthesis without anchoring a foregrounded quantitative claim and are catalogued for completeness: ADA 2024.

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