Bifidobacterium infantis VPro 53 and Increased Body Weight

• 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

  10 Insights on

  • Increased Body Weight

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  Compared to the placebo group, the Bifid group showed significantly greater and earlier weight gain by 8 weeks.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

• Bifidobacterium infantis treatment promotes weight gain in Bangladeshi infants with severe acute malnutrition

  • 2022-04-13
  • RCT
  • Science Translational Medicine 14(640)
  • • Michael J. Barratt
    • Sharika Nuzhat
    • Kazi Ahsan
    • S. Frese
    • Aleksandr A. Arzamasov
    • S. Sarker
    • M. M. Islam
    • P. Palit
    • Md. Ridwan Islam
    • M. Hibberd
    • Swetha Nakshatri
    • Carrie A. Cowardin
    • J. Guruge
    • A. Byrne
    • Siddarth Venkatesh
    • Vinaik Sundaresan
    • B. Henrick
    • R. Duar
    • Ryan D. Mitchell
    • G. Casaburi
    • Johann Prambs
    • Robin L. Flannery
    • M. Mahfuz
    • D. Rodionov
    • A. Osterman
    • David Kyle
    • T. Ahmed
    • J. Gordon

  • PubMed: 35417188
  • DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abk1107

  3 Insights on

  • Increased Body Weight

  • Low evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Animal Study
  • Clinical

  EVC001 treatment promoted weight gain that was associated with reduced intestinal inflammation markers in infants with SAM.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate