Bifidobacterium infantis VPro 53 and Improved Quality of Life

• Efficacy of an Encapsulated Probiotic Bifidobacterium infantis 35624 in Women with Irritable Bowel Syndrome

  • 2006-07
  • RCT · n = 362
  • The American Journal of Gastroenterology 101(7)
  • • P. Whorwell
    • L. Altringer
    • J. Morel
    • Yvonne Bond
    • D. Charbonneau
    • L. O’Mahony
    • B. Kiely
    • F. Shanahan
    • E. Quigley

  • PubMed: 16863564
  • DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2006.00734.x

  12 Insights on

  • Improved Quality of Life

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Highly Cited

  A composite symptom score, the subject's global assessment of IBS symptom relief, and measures of quality of life (using the IBS-QOL instrument) were also recorded.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate