Bifidobacterium animalis BS-01 and Reduced Risk of Upper Respiratory Tract Infections

• Orally Ingested Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics as Countermeasures for Respiratory Tract Infections in Nonelderly Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  • 2022-11
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 9,179
  • Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) 13(6)
  • • Julie L Coleman
    • Adrienne Hatch-McChesney
    • Stephanie D Small
    • Jillian T Allen
    • Elaine Sullo
    • Richard T Agans
    • Heather S Fagnant
    • Asma S Bukhari
    • J Philip Karl

  • PubMed: 35948276
  • DOI: 10.1093/advances/nmac086

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Risk of Upper Respiratory Tract Infections

  • High evidence

  Probiotics reduced the risk of experiencing ≥1 RTI (relative risk = 0.91; 95% CI: 0.84, 0.98; P = 0.01), and total days (rate ratio = 0.77; 95% CI: 0.71, 0.83; P < 0.001), duration (Hedges' g = -0.23; 95% CI: -0.39, -0.08; P = 0.004), and severity (Hedges' g = -0.16; 95% CI: -0.29, -0.03; P = 0.02) of RTIs.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes