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Medium-Chain Triglycerides

  • Prescription medicine
  • Given by a clinician
  • Identity checked
  • Sources last checked 2026-09-04

This page shows what was measured, who it was measured in, and what that does not settle.

What Medium-Chain Triglycerides does in the body

RNAWiki has not recorded what this substance changes in the body.

From the FDA-approved label: SMOFlipid provides a biologically utilizable source of calories and essential fatty acids. Fatty acids serve as an important substrate for energy production. The most common mechanism of action for energy production derived from fatty acid metabolism is beta oxidation. Fatty acids are also important for membrane structure and function, as precursors for bioactive molecules (such as prostaglandins), and as regulators of gene expression.

What happened in people

RNAWiki has not yet published a reviewed conclusion for this use.

A fixed RNAWiki sentence

Where this came from

Wording RNAWiki always uses, not a finding about this substance.

No reviewed claim names a result for any goal on this record.

No source is stored against this line.

The limit that matters most

Not recorded.

Where it acts
Not recorded.
Kind of result
No result is published, so no kind of result applies yet
Supervision
RNAWiki has not recorded a supervision or regulatory status for this substance.

What the registries record it as

  • The substance registry classes this as mixture.

    FDA substance registry · C9H2L21V7U · read 2026-08-29

  • The supplement label database classes it as fat, under the name Medium Chain Triglycerides.

    NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database · 2761 · read 2026-08-29

Where each sentence above came from

No recorded sentence describes the change this makes in a way that stands on its own.

No recorded use is stored in reader language.

No statement of the main limit is recorded.

The four opening statements run to 91 words.

Words this page uses

Four words worth knowing first

Chosen from what this page shows, with each one explained before the word it depends on.

Biomarker

A biomarker is a number from a test that stands in for something about health.

A picture of it, and where the picture fails

A biomarker is like a fuel gauge.

Where that stops being true. A gauge is wired to the tank. Many biomarkers are only loosely tied to health.

What people get wrong. A better number is read as a better life. Several medicines improved a number and helped nobody.

A measurable indicator used as a substitute for a clinical outcome of interest.

Placebo

A placebo is a dummy treatment given so the real one can be compared with it.

A picture of it, and where the picture fails

A placebo is like a blank control in an experiment.

Where that stops being true. A blank does nothing. People given a placebo often do get better.

What people get wrong. A placebo effect is read as imaginary. The improvement is measured and real.

An inactive intervention matched in appearance to the test intervention, used to control for non-specific effects.

Comparator

A comparator is whatever the treatment was measured against.

A picture of it, and where the picture fails

It is like the other runner in a race.

Where that stops being true. A race has one winner. A study can show both arms improved.

What people get wrong. Results are read without asking what the other group got. Beating nothing is not beating a treatment.

The control condition against which the experimental intervention is assessed.

What happened in peopleRead from sources, not yet reviewed

What happened in people

Each card is one study: the exact question it asked, who was in it, and whether it showed what it set out to show.

Cardiovascular risk as assessed by Modified Moli-Sani risk score in the Italian population

The study did not show it

Who was studied
NCT05339841
How many people
27520
Study design
Not applicable
Compared against
Not recorded for this study
Kind of result
A number that stands in for health
What was found
Result not recorded on this page
Repeated elsewhere
Unreplicated

What this does not prove. A study that did not show an effect does not show that no effect exists anywhere.

The limits of this study, and where it came from

Main limit. No limitation is recorded for this study.

How far it carries. This study is recorded from the curated record, not from the registry match.

Form and route. Intravenous

Interval reported. Not recorded in this summary

Written into the record, not signed off as a reviewed claim.

  • openFDA NDC Directory · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA SPL label · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA Drugs@FDA · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • FDA label (openFDA SPL) · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot

28-day mortality

The study did not show it

Who was studied
NCT03188796
How many people
2400
Study design
Phase 3
Compared against
Not recorded for this study
Kind of result
Living longer, or avoiding a major event
What was found
Result not recorded on this page
Repeated elsewhere
Unreplicated

What this does not prove. A study that did not show an effect does not show that no effect exists anywhere.

The limits of this study, and where it came from

Main limit. No limitation is recorded for this study.

How far it carries. This study is recorded from the curated record, not from the registry match.

Form and route. Intravenous

Interval reported. Not recorded in this summary

Written into the record, not signed off as a reviewed claim.

  • openFDA NDC Directory · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA SPL label · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA Drugs@FDA · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • FDA label (openFDA SPL) · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot

Fat mass in kg

The study did not show it

Who was studied
NCT05940675
How many people
1372
Study design
Not applicable
Compared against
Not recorded for this study
Kind of result
Measured performance
What was found
Result not recorded on this page
Repeated elsewhere
Unreplicated

What this does not prove. A study that did not show an effect does not show that no effect exists anywhere.

The limits of this study, and where it came from

Main limit. No limitation is recorded for this study.

How far it carries. This study is recorded from the curated record, not from the registry match.

Form and route. Intravenous

Interval reported. Not recorded in this summary

Written into the record, not signed off as a reviewed claim.

  • openFDA NDC Directory · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA SPL label · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA Drugs@FDA · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • FDA label (openFDA SPL) · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot

Forced Expiratory Volume in One Second (FEV1) Percent Predicted

The study did not show it

Who was studied
NCT04129931
How many people
950
Study design
Phase 2
Compared against
Not recorded for this study
Kind of result
A number that stands in for health
What was found
Result not recorded on this page
Repeated elsewhere
Unreplicated

What this does not prove. A study that did not show an effect does not show that no effect exists anywhere.

The limits of this study, and where it came from

Main limit. No limitation is recorded for this study.

How far it carries. This study is recorded from the curated record, not from the registry match.

Form and route. Intravenous

Interval reported. Not recorded in this summary

Written into the record, not signed off as a reviewed claim.

  • openFDA NDC Directory · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA SPL label · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA Drugs@FDA · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • FDA label (openFDA SPL) · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot

Time to Stabilization

The study did not show it

Who was studied
NCT02246296
How many people
842
Study design
Phase 2/Phase 3
Compared against
Not recorded for this study
Kind of result
A number that stands in for health
What was found
Result not recorded on this page
Repeated elsewhere
Unreplicated

What this does not prove. A study that did not show an effect does not show that no effect exists anywhere.

The limits of this study, and where it came from

Main limit. No limitation is recorded for this study.

How far it carries. This study is recorded from the curated record, not from the registry match.

Form and route. Intravenous

Interval reported. Not recorded in this summary

Written into the record, not signed off as a reviewed claim.

  • openFDA NDC Directory · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA SPL label · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA Drugs@FDA · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • FDA label (openFDA SPL) · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot

Prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus, GDM

The study did not show it

Who was studied
NCT01922791
How many people
439
Study design
Not applicable
Compared against
Not recorded for this study
Kind of result
A number that stands in for health
What was found
Result not recorded on this page
Repeated elsewhere
Unreplicated

What this does not prove. A study that did not show an effect does not show that no effect exists anywhere.

The limits of this study, and where it came from

Main limit. No limitation is recorded for this study.

How far it carries. This study is recorded from the curated record, not from the registry match.

Form and route. Intravenous

Interval reported. Not recorded in this summary

Written into the record, not signed off as a reviewed claim.

  • openFDA NDC Directory · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA SPL label · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • openFDA Drugs@FDA · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
  • FDA label (openFDA SPL) · a recorded source, not a stored snapshot
What we know
RNAWiki holds 6 written-up human studies for this substance, each with the question it asked.
How we know it
Each card names the study, the number of people and what the study set out to measure.
What this does not prove
These summaries were written by a person and have not been signed off as reviewed claims.
Why it matters
A study that failed is as informative as one that worked, and both are here.
What we still do not know
No reviewed claim exists, so no exact population, effect size or interval is published yet.

What is missing or unclearRead from sources, not yet reviewed

Were people like you studied?

RNAWiki cannot tell whether a study fits you. It can show who was in it, and where the result stops carrying.

Who was studied

People similar to this profile were included.

  • SMOFlipid is indicated in adult and pediatric patients, including term and preterm neonates, as a source of calories and essential fatty acids for parenteral nutrition (PN) when oral or enteral nutrition is not possible, insufficient, or contraindicated.

Who is missing from the studies

  • Which groups were under-represented in the studies has not been recorded for this substance. Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, and people with liver or kidney conditions are commonly excluded from trials; nothing here says whether they were.

Where the result stopped carrying

  • This is a scope explorer, not a diagnosis engine.
  • It shows who was studied so you can see whether people similar to you were included.

RNAWiki cannot tell whether a study fits you. It can show who was in it.

What it would be like to takeRead from sources, not yet reviewed

Why it might seem to do nothing

A real effect and a noticed effect are different things. These are the recorded reasons the two come apart.

It was studied in different people

The people in the studies were not much like the reader.

On this record: Which groups were under-represented in the studies has not been recorded for this substance. Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, and people with liver or kidney conditions are commonly excluded from trials; nothing here says whether they were.

The evidence may simply be wrong

Small early studies often do not hold up.

On this record: RNAWiki has not yet published a reviewed conclusion for this use.

Other reasons RNAWiki checked and found nothing for (11)
It was studied for a different goal
The studies measured something else entirely. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
A different form was studied
The studied form is not the form on the shelf. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
There was nothing to correct
Where a level is already normal, topping it up may change nothing. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
Something else had to happen too
In the studies it was paired with training, a diet or another treatment. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
The change is too small to feel
A real change can still sit below what a person notices. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
Day-to-day swing hides it
Sleep, food, stress and time of day move most numbers more than this would. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
Not enough time yet
The studies ran longer than the person has waited. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
It was not taken as studied
Missed days change the result, and studies count them. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
Something else changed at the same time
Two changes at once cannot be told apart afterwards. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
The product may not be what it says
Contents of a sold product are not always what the label states. Nothing in this record points to this reason.
No recorded reason
RNAWiki has nothing stored that would explain it. Nothing in this record points to this reason.

None of these is a reason to take more. Taking more is not a step this page ever suggests.

What it would be like to takeRead from sources, not yet reviewed

What taking it involves

The recorded facts about getting hold of it and using it. Nothing here is a suggestion about what you should do.

How it is supplied

Given by a clinician

Quoted from a source

Where this came from

Copied from a source RNAWiki stored, with the source named.

Read from the recorded approval status.

No source is stored against this line.

Form and route

Intravenous

Source-linked record

Where this came from

A person wrote this into the record with the study named beside it. No reviewer has signed it off.

The form and route recorded on this substance.

No source is stored against this line.

Who oversees it

RNAWiki has not recorded a supervision or regulatory status for this substance.

Quoted from a source

Where this came from

Copied from a source RNAWiki stored, with the source named.

No register row and no identity class settled the question.

No source is stored against this line.

What is in the pack

Sold as injection, emulsion, cream, given by the intravenous, topical route.

Source-linked record

Where this came from

A person wrote this into the record with the study named beside it. No reviewer has signed it off.

Recorded notes on how this is sold and what that means for what is in the pack.

No source is stored against this line.

Where it is registered

Regulatory records are listed in the technical disclosure at the foot of this page.

Counted from records

Where this came from

A count of rows RNAWiki holds. It describes our records, not your body.

Register entries are stored per jurisdiction and shown with their dates.

No source is stored against this line.

Why people stop

Not recorded.

Nothing recorded

Where this came from

RNAWiki holds nothing here and says so rather than guessing.

No record of why people stopped taking it is stored for this substance.

No source is stored against this line.

What it would be like to takeNothing found in the sources checked

What can go wrong

Sorted by where each line came from. A regulator's label and a report somebody sent in are not the same kind of fact.

Nothing found in the sources checked

No harm is recorded against this substance in the sources RNAWiki checked. Finding nothing is not the same as showing there is nothing.

The sources listed were searched and held nothing. That is not the same as nothing existing.

Over a long time. No completed tested study window is recorded, so long-term effects are not established by the registry record.

Groups the studies covered thinly. Which groups were under-represented in the studies has not been recorded for this substance. Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, and people with liver or kidney conditions are commonly excluded from trials; nothing here says whether they were.

What is missing or unclearRead from sources, not yet reviewed

Does the exact form matter?

Evidence belongs to the exact thing that was tested. A different salt, a different mixture or a different preparation is a different question.

The form that was studied

Intravenous

Source-linked record

Where this came from

A person wrote this into the record with the study named beside it. No reviewer has signed it off.

The form used in the studies cited on this page.

No source is stored against this line.

What is sold

Not recorded.

Nothing recorded

Where this came from

RNAWiki holds nothing here and says so rather than guessing.

Nothing further is recorded about which forms are sold.

No source is stored against this line.

What is recorded as being sold

  • 5 products list this as an active ingredient in the United States drug directory. 1 of them contain it and nothing else.

    FDA National Drug Code directory · 83021-187 · read 2026-08-29

  • They are sold as cream, injection, emulsion and liquid, taken intravenous and topical.

    FDA National Drug Code directory · 83021-187 · read 2026-08-29

  • 4 published labels name it as an active ingredient. None of them describes this substance alone, so no label text on this page can be attributed to it rather than to a combination.

    US prescribing information · ebe024f7-7c45-ad60-e053-2995a90a45d6 · read 2026-08-29

  • Those labels are classed as human otc drug and human prescription drug.

    US prescribing information · ebe024f7-7c45-ad60-e053-2995a90a45d6 · read 2026-08-29

  • 17466 marketed supplement labels list this ingredient, classed as fat/fatty acid and fat.

    NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database · 218469 · read 2026-08-29

  • Those labels carry all other, nutrient and structure/function claims. A claim of that kind is written by the manufacturer and is not assessed by any regulator, so its presence says nothing about whether it is true.

    NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database · 218469 · read 2026-08-29

  • Smoflipid is intravenous at 3 DOSAGE FORMS AND STRENGTHS SMOFlipid is a sterile, homogenous lipid injectable emulsion in Flexible Containers supplied as: • 20 g of lipid/100 mL in 100 mL single-dose Flexible Container • 50 g of lipid/250 mL in 250…, recorded as fda label in effect 2025-08-15 in the United States.

    US prescribing information · e0e9d917-ff6f-488e-a6a8-0ad59dd17d80 · read 2026-08-30

Evidence carries across two names for one substance. It does not carry across a salt, a mirror form or a mixture.

What it would be like to takeRead from sources, not yet reviewed

What you could measure

This one is decided with a clinician, so this section holds questions to ask rather than a plan to run.

RNAWiki could not confidently classify this substance, so no self-experiment plan is offered.

Questions worth asking

  • Which of the trials of Medium-Chain Triglycerides studied people like me?
  • What was measured, and for how long?
  • Was the result a laboratory value or a health outcome?
  • What would we watch for, and when would we stop?

Tracking can show whether something changed for you. It cannot show what caused it.

RNAWiki records evidence. It does not say whether this substance is right for you.

What is missing or unclearRead from sources, not yet reviewed

What nobody knows yet

Open questions, each with why it is open and what would close it.

Missing populations

Which groups were under-represented in the studies has not been recorded.

Why it matters. Recorded by the evidence model as a gap on this record.

What would answer it

A study that measures it, and a reviewer to sign it off.

Last checked 2026-09-04. Searched: The sources listed in the receipts at the foot of this page.

Missing long-term data

No completed tested study window is recorded.

Why it matters. Recorded by the evidence model as a gap on this record.

What would answer it

A study that measures it, and a reviewer to sign it off.

Last checked 2026-09-04. Searched: The sources listed in the receipts at the foot of this page.

No reviewed conclusion

RNAWiki has not yet published a reviewed conclusion for this use.

Why it matters. Recorded by the evidence model as a gap on this record.

What would answer it

A study that measures it, and a reviewer to sign it off.

Last checked 2026-09-04. Searched: The sources listed in the receipts at the foot of this page.

Missing interaction studies

No interaction was found in the registers checked. Not finding one is not the same as showing there is none.

Why it matters. Recorded by the evidence model as a gap on this record.

What would answer it

A study that measures it, and a reviewer to sign it off.

Last checked 2026-09-04. Searched: The sources listed in the receipts at the foot of this page.

Formulation uncertainty

Several salts, forms or products of Medium-Chain Triglycerides are recorded. Results from one form may not transfer to another.

Why it matters. Recorded by the evidence model as a gap on this record.

What would answer it

A study that measures it, and a reviewer to sign it off.

Last checked 2026-09-04. Searched: The sources listed in the receipts at the foot of this page.

Mechanism not reviewed

No reviewed mechanism story exists for this substance.

Why it matters. Recorded by the evidence model as a gap on this record.

What would answer it

A study that measures it, and a reviewer to sign it off.

Last checked 2026-09-04. Searched: The sources listed in the receipts at the foot of this page.

What happened in peopleRead from sources, not yet reviewed

Check any of this yourself

Every line above traced back to the study it came from. This is the technical layer, and the vocabulary changes here.

Where else this substance is registered

FDA substance identifier (UNII)
C9H2L21V7U
CAS registry number
438544-49-1
PubChem compound
91757308
RxNorm concept
1310578
EMA substance identifier
100000079033
DrugBank
DB13959

Checks this page had to pass

  • Passed

    Identity resolved

    no open identity hold

  • Passed

    No unresolved merge across substance families

    no quarantine open

  • Not passed

    Every public sentence names a source

    The opening statement carries no source: the record holds neither an explanation nor a recorded use.

  • Not passed

    Trial roles classified for highlighted evidence

    No registered study is classified as testing this substance.

  • Passed

    No internal keys in reader text

    enforced by the copy-contract test over the rendered page

  • Not passed

    Safety mode resolved

    No register row and no identity class settled the question.

  • Passed

    Canonical metadata present

    slug and display name present

What is missing or unclearRead from sources, not yet reviewed

How this medicine reached us

Kept near the foot of the page. A historical event moves up only when it changes something about this substance today.

What the approval register records

  • 1 approved application covers products containing this substance. The earliest was NDA207648, approved 20160713 to FRESENIUS KABI USA.

    Drugs@FDA application register · NDA207648 · read 2026-08-29

  • Marketing status on the register: prescription.

    Drugs@FDA application register · NDA207648 · read 2026-08-29

  • The earliest marketing start date recorded for a listed product is 20150918.

    FDA National Drug Code directory · 83021-187 · read 2026-08-29

What is missing or unclearRead from sources, not yet reviewed

What to learn next

Ordered by what would most change how you read this page, starting with what is easiest to misunderstand.

This order is fixed in code and does not count clicks or time on the page.

What is not here

9 questions this page could not answer

These sections were prepared and left out because there was nothing to put in them. They are listed rather than hidden, so the gaps in this record are visible.

  • What was measured, goal by goal — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • How close this is to real life — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • The path through the body — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • Felt, measured, or meaningful — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • How long anything takes — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • What it may clash with — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • Other ways to the same goal — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • Claims that go past the evidence — found nothing in the sources checked.
  • What changed on this page — found nothing in the sources checked.

The record as stored

The full record, for auditing

Everything above is built from what is below. This layer keeps the technical vocabulary, record identifiers and every stored row, so a reader who wants to check the page can.

Recorded evidence blocks (7)

40 registered trials of Medium-Chain Triglycerides — at which phases?


Registered studies posting no result
34 of 40

40 registered studies of Medium-Chain Triglycerides: 16 na, 13 phase4, 4 phase2, 4 phase3, 2 na or unstated, 2 phase1, 1 early phase1. CLINICALTRIALS_SNAPSHOT · 2026-09-01

261 with a PubMed record

Show the evidence
  • na
    16
  • phase4
    13
  • phase2
    4
  • phase3
    4
  • na or unstated
    2
  • phase1
    2
8 more recorded rows
  • early phase1
    1
  • completed
    23
  • unknown
    6
  • terminated
    4
  • withdrawn
    3
  • recruiting
    2
  • approved for marketing
    1
  • enrolling by invitation
    1

recorded 2026-09-01 · last checked 2026-09-04

6 of Medium-Chain Triglycerides's trials stopped: futility/efficacy, accrual/recruitment, other?


futility/efficacy (1), accrual/recruitment (1) and other (4): Medium-Chain Triglycerides's stop wording, clustered. CLINICALTRIALS_SNAPSHOT · 2026-09-01

"Unable to recruit adequate trial participants"; 6 of 40 registered studies

Show the evidence

Trial

  • NCT00672763
    withdrawn; "Unable to recruit adequate trial participants"
  • NCT02579265
    terminated; "Outcome of a planned interim analysis was that the sample size required to show superiority was too high to be feasible. Fresenius Kabi requested termination to the FDA on 17 Jan 2020. FDA accepted termination by written response on 16 Apr…"
  • NCT02633384
    terminated; "One of the intravenous lipid emulsions was retired from the market"
  • NCT02853253
    withdrawn; "scientific question reconsidered"
  • NCT03054948
    withdrawn; "Redesign of study protocol."
  • NCT03563222
    terminated; "Prematurely stopped in agreement with authorities (FDA)"

recorded 2026-09-01 · last checked 2026-09-04

Human studies of Medium-Chain Triglycerides used SMOFlipid 20%® (Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH,Bad Homburg, Germany) — over how long?


Human studies of Medium-Chain Triglycerides used "SMOFlipid 20%® (Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH,Bad Homburg, Germany)". ClinicalTrials.gov · 2026-09-01

8 recorded entries; human; also "SMOFlipid 20%", "Smoflipid 20% (investigational lipid for parenteral nutrition)", "Smoflipid 20% (lipid injectable emulsion)"

Show the evidence

human

  • NCT00600912
    SMOFlipid 20%® (Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH,Bad Homburg, Germany)
  • NCT00793195
    SMOFlipid 20%
  • NCT02579265
    Smoflipid 20% (investigational lipid for parenteral nutrition)
  • NCT02579265
    Smoflipid 20% (lipid injectable emulsion)
  • NCT03149653
    SMOFlipid 20% Fresenius Kabi
  • NCT03149653
    SMOFlipid 20% Fresenius Kabi + Omegaven 10% Fresenius Kabi
2 more recorded rows
  • human NCT03563222
    Smoflipid® Lipid Injectible Emulsion, USP 20%
  • human NCT04951791
    smoflipid 20% lipid emulsion

recorded 2026-09-01 · last checked 2026-09-04

Which running trial of Medium-Chain Triglycerides could settle lifespan?


NCT05937789 measures 30-day mortality rate, reading out 2026-12-31.

1 open trial; n 240; "Early Vitamin D3 Supplementation for Critically Ill Patients"

Show the evidence
  • Trial NCT05937789
    "Early Vitamin D3 Supplementation for Critically Ill Patients"; n 240; "30-day mortality rate"; 2026-12-31

Which 19 trials of Medium-Chain Triglycerides posted no result?


Posted no result
19 of 19 completed trials
Registrations
NCT00600912, NCT00885781, NCT01252979, NCT01806142, NCT04572373 and NCT02760472, and 13 more
Completion dates
oldest 2007-12; newest 2022-03-24
Show the evidence

Trial

  • NCT00600912
    2007-12
  • NCT00885781
    2010-12
  • NCT01252979
    2011-12
  • NCT01806142
    2013-02
  • NCT04572373
    2015-06-30
  • NCT02760472
    2015-09
13 further recorded trials
  • NCT03149653
    2016-06-30
  • NCT02248948
    2016-07
  • NCT01315171
    2016-10
  • NCT02539316
    2016-10
  • NCT03275090
    2017-02-01
  • NCT01585935
    2017-11-13
  • NCT03610477
    2017-12-30
  • NCT02783703
    2018-06-20
  • NCT04309214
    2019-01-21
  • NCT04511299
    2020-07-13
  • NCT04957940
    2021-09-26
  • NCT05779410
    2021-12-08
  • NCT03167307
    2022-03-24

At the median, Medium-Chain Triglycerides's trials enrolled 40 people — anything larger?


Median enrolment
40
Largest enrolment
384
Registered trials counted
39

What do 131 spontaneous reports say about Medium-Chain Triglycerides — and not say?


These are reports people sent to a regulator. They do not show the medicine caused the reaction. Nobody counted how many people took the medicine and reported nothing. The same event can be reported more than once, and many reports are incomplete. News coverage, lawsuits and new warnings change how often people report. A count is not a rate and not a risk.

Medium-Chain Triglycerides appears in spontaneous reports to regulators. Across the 10 most-reported reaction terms, 131 reaction mentions were counted: fatty acid deficiency 26; malaise 24; cholestasis 14; product packaging confusion 14. FAERS via Open Targets · CHEMBL2108659 · 2026-06-24

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  • fatty acid deficiency
    26
  • malaise
    24
  • cholestasis
    14
  • product packaging confusion
    14
  • parenteral nutrition associated liver disease
    13
  • hypertriglyceridaemia
    11
4 more recorded rows
  • wrong drug administered
    9
  • body temperature increased
    7
  • hypoglycaemia
    7
  • hyperglycaemia
    6

recorded 2026-06-24 · last checked 2026-09-04

Where it is registered
Identifiers, relations and other names

The exact record

ChEMBL id
CHEMBL2108659
PubChem CID
91757308
CAS number
438544-49-1
RxCUI
1310578
Also called
TRIGLYCERIDES, MEDIUM-CHAIN, mct, Caprylic/capric triglyceride, Miglyol 812 n, CAPRYLIC/CAPRIC TRIGLYCERIDE [II], CAPRYLIC/CAPRIC TRIGLYCERIDES, CAPRYLOCAPROYL TRIGLYCERIDES, CAPTRIN, COCONUT OIL, FRACTIONED, Caprylic and capric triglycerides, Caprylic/capric triglyceride [WHO-DD], FRACTIONATED COCONUT OIL
Trade name
Medium-chain triglycerides component of smoflipid, Miglyol 810 n, Neobee 1053, Anubis Barcelona Vital Line, Smoflipid, Anubismed, Smoflipid 20%, Anubis Barcelona Vital Line / Smoflipid / Anubismed
Sources (5)

Sources

ChEMBL 37 — CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported · ClinicalTrials.gov — US Government work · Open Targets 26.06 — CC0 · mixed register set; per-register licences in docs/specs/corpus-20k-sources.md

How these records are assembled · Which registers were checked

Index-quality checks
  • identity passed: no open identity hold
  • required summary fields resolved: 3 required field(s) not terminal: Best-supported result, Biggest unanswered question, Human evidence
  • public claims reviewed: 0 reviewed claim(s); drafts are never rendered
  • source coverage passed: 5 source rows
  • no critical contamination: no quarantine open
  • canonical metadata passed: slug and display name present
  • no raw internal fields: enforced by the copy-contract test over the rendered page

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