Reply to: "Preoperative Carbohydrate Loading on Outcomes after Cardiac Surgery: A Flawed Meta-Analysis. Comment on: The Effect of Preoperative Carbohydrate Loading on Clinical and Biochemical Outcomes after Cardiac Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials. Nutrients 2020, 12, 3904"

Nutrients. 2020 Dec 21;12(12):3905. doi: 10.3390/nu12123905.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Therapy and Acute Intoxications, Pomeranian Medical University, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland.
² Department of Human Nutrition and Metabolomics, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, 71-460 Szczecin, Poland.
³ Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, Medical University of Gdansk, 80-210 Gdansk, Poland.
⁴ Home Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition Unit, General Surgery, Nicolaus Copernicus Hospital, 80-210 Gdansk, Poland.

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We appreciate the thoughts and questions posed by Drs Dileep N Lobo and Girish P Joshi [...].