Nutricia refutes NPS

January 20, 2014

Recently NPS MedicineWise reported in the NPS’ Health News and Evidence that Souvenaid, a nutritional supplement from Nutricia, failed to “decrease rate of cognitive decline” in Alzheimer’s patients or delay “disease progression.” Nutricia says that Souvenaid has never been promoted as achieving those as yet unattainable goals. People with Alzheimer’s disease have medically determined nutritional requirements for which Souvenaid was formulated, resulting in improvements in episodic memory as demonstrated in two large published randomised controlled clinical trials conducted with more than 500 patients.

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