Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 and Reduced Risk of Small-for-Gestational-Age Birth

• The mechanism of probiotics in pregnancy outcomes in overweight or obese pregnant women based on meta-analysis, network pharmacology and molecular docking.

  • 2025-08-26
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 1,563
  • BMC pregnancy and childbirth 25(1)
  • • Ting Zhong
    • Jihan Sun
    • Miao Miao
    • Guiju Sun

  • PubMed: 40859213
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12884-025-07999-x

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Risk of Small-for-Gestational-Age Birth

  • High evidence

  subgroup analyses indicated that the combination of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus significantly reduced the risk of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) (RR = 0.54, 95% CI [0.30,0.96], P = 0.04).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes