Bifidobacterium and Reduced Mortality

• Bifidobacterium may benefit the prevention of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2019-01
  • Meta-Analysis
  • International Journal of Surgery 61
  • • Xiu-li Zhu
    • Xiao-Gang Tang
    • Fan Qu
    • Yu Zheng
    • Wenhao Zhang
    • Yu-qiao Diao

  • PubMed: 30500473
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2018.11.026

  7 Insights on

  • Reduced Mortality

  • High evidence

  death (RR 0.74, 95% CI 0.60-0.92; P = 0.006) was significantly lower in the Bifidobacterium groups.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes