The clinical research on the effect of hydrogen-rich water on primary retinitis pigmentosa
Chen X, Chen Y, Lin X, Ye Q, Zhang S, Wang Y, Chen M, Yan W. · Heliyon. 2023;9(10):e20671.
What kind of evidence is this?
Human
Human interventional or observational study
Eye health
H₂-rich water
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Methods at a glance
Human participants studied for eye health. See eligibility criteria in the linked full text.
Human study; group or assay counts reported in the full text include n=24, n=11, n=13.
Multiple article-specific time points; see the linked full methods.
Full text reports H₂ dissolved in drinking water. No numeric quantity is inferred beyond the source wording.
H₂ dissolved in drinking water — H₂ only unless the full text explicitly reports oxygen co-delivery.
The full article describes the H₂ intervention but does not report a numeric H₂ concentration.
Not applicable — no inhaled H₂ intervention was identified in the full article.
No inhaled O₂ co-delivery was identified for this non-inhalation intervention.
Control or comparison condition reported in the full article; see the linked methods for arm-specific details.
Outcomes and reported result
clinical symptoms or functional scores, oxidative-stress and antioxidant markers, apoptosis or cell injury
Article-reported result excerpt (24 words maximum): “There was a statistically significant improvement in the mean BCVA following HRW consumption (t = -2.954, P = 0.007) ([Table 2]).” This excerpt is not a complete result summary; consult the linked full text for all positive and null findings.
The complete machine-readable article was checked for source identity, methods, intervention quantities, results, tables, funding and conflict declarations. This public record is based on the full article.
A reported association, difference or mechanism is not automatically a clinical benefit. Null findings, outcome type, study design and precision all matter.
Cautions and applicability
Human evidence; design, sample size and comparator limit interpretation. No funding statement was identified in the machine-readable full article; absence is not inferred. No explicit conflict statement was identified in the machine-readable full article; absence is not inferred.
Applies only to the population and protocol reported in this eye health article.
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No single-study GRADE certainty rating is assigned. Certainty is assessed by important outcome across a complete eligible evidence set, not by attaching a final grade to one source.
Sources and record status
PMID: 37860576 · DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20671
A free full article is available through PubMed Central.
Official Europe PMC JATS full article and PubMed/PMC identifiers; structured full-text extraction and validation completed 8 August 2026.
2026-08-10