Clostridium butyricum and Reduced Constipation Incidence

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  • 2021-02
  • RCT · n = 61
  • Annals of Palliative Medicine 10(2)
  • • Jie Wang
    • Hui Ke
    • Kai-Xiong Liu
    • J. Qu

  • PubMed: 33040557
  • DOI: 10.21037/apm-20-202

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Constipation Incidence

  • High evidence

  The incidence of constipation significantly reduced in the intervention group (17.86% vs. 42.42%, P=0.04)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes