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Some good general points are raised in this commentary. However the conclusion is much broader than what the cited study supports. The study looks at short duration (four days) of intervention, the commentators then cite a very specific surrogate marker (transient creatinine) and fail to recognize that neither the duration of hospital stay nor clinical events were affected. Then they state that this study negates all the other studies which looked at different aspects of turmeric and its compounds. Their conclusion is overreaching and simply not supported. Further more, a major reporting flaw of the original study is that it does not report on a critical factor that directly affects the measured outcome: the time of Aortic clamping. Although this is routinely documented during the OR, by not acknowledging it in this study, ANY effect attributed to the studied intervention is questionable.
Below is a link to 2644 references regarding tumeric, sub-grouped into 844 diseases: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/substance/turmeric The say that the above study discounts each and every one of these is wrong on so many levels.