Ozone as Janus: this controversial gas can be either toxic or medically useful
Bocci V. Mediators of Inflammation, 2004.
- Study type
- Narrative review
- People studied
- No participants of its own (narrative review)
- Published
- 2004, Mediators of Inflammation
- Identifiers
- PMID 15203558, DOI 10.1080/0962935062000197083
What the authors reported
Argues that ozone, though intrinsically toxic as an inhaled gas, produces a cascade of ozone-derived compounds when dissolved in blood at judicious, physician-controlled doses, yielding multifactorial beneficial effects in infections, vasculopathies, and orthopedic and dental conditions.
What limits this result
Single-author narrative review without a systematic search methodology or quantitative synthesis of the underlying evidence.
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