Bifidobacterium longum UABl-14 and Improved Bowel Movement Frequency

• Efficacy in bowel movement and change of gut microbiota on adult functional constipation patients treated with probiotics-containing products: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2024-01
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 1,256
  • BMJ open 14(1)
  • • Fei Ding
    • Mengyang Hu
    • Yifei Ding
    • Yingying Meng
    • Yanchao Zhao

  • PubMed: 38238054
  • DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-074557

  3 Insights on

  • Improved Bowel Movement Frequency

  • High evidence

  Compared with placebo, probiotics-containing products significantly increased the stool frequency (weighted mean difference, WMD 0.93, 95% CI 0.47 to 1.40, p=0.000, I²=84.5%, 'low')

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes