Bifidobacterium lactis DSM 15954 and Improved Irritable Bowel Syndrome Symptoms

• Probiotics for the management of irritable bowel syndrome: a systematic review and three-level meta-analysis.

  • 2023-08-10
  • Meta-Analysis
  • International journal of surgery (London, England) 109(11)
  • • Min Chen
    • Lu Yuan
    • Chao-Rong Xie
    • Xiao-Ying Wang
    • Si-Jia Feng
    • Xin-Yu Xiao
    • Hui Zheng

  • PubMed: 37565634
  • DOI: 10.1097/js9.0000000000000658

  1 Insight on

  • Improved Irritable Bowel Syndrome Symptoms

  • High evidence

  The meta-analysis showed significantly better overall effect of probiotics than placebo on the global IBS symptoms (SMD -0.55, 95% CI -0.76 to -0.34, P <0.001)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes