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“At completion of the three-month treatment phase, patients taking chondroitin sulfate (4 capsules/day) were using significantly less NSAIDs ; this decrease persisted throughout the two-month treatment-free follow-up phase.”
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research • 2020 | View Paper
“Symptomatic slow acting drugs (avocado soybean unsaponifiable, chondroitin sulphate , diacerein, glucosamine sulphate) have mild symptomatic effects and may reduce the consumption of NSAID.”
“These studies show that CS (a) has slow onset of response and that relief of pain may not be like … non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), (b) there are indications of reduced need for intake of analgesics (e.g. NSAIDs) … CS , and (c) quality of … with use of CS.”