Bifidobacterium breve and Increased Body Weight Gain

• Bifidobacterium Supplementation of Colostrum and Breast Milk Enhances Weight Gain and Metabolic Responses Associated with Microbiota Establishment in Very-Preterm Infants

  • 2019-09-24
  • RCT · n = 35
  • Biomedicine Hub 4(3)
  • • T. Oshiro
    • S. Nagata
    • Chongxin Wang
    • Takuya Takahashi
    • H. Tsuji
    • T. Asahara
    • K. Nomoto
    • H. Takei
    • H. Nittono
    • Y. Yamashiro

  • PubMed: 31993433
  • DOI: 10.1159/000502935

  11 Insights on

  • Increased Body Weight Gain

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  the Bifid group showed significantly greater and earlier weight gain by 8 weeks

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes