Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 and Improved Language Score

• Neurodevelopment and Growth 2 Years After Probiotic Supplementation in Extremely Preterm Infants: A Randomised Trial.

  • 2025-02-13
  • RCT · n = 134
  • Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) 114(8)
  • • Erik Wejryd
    • Giovanna Marchini
    • Peter Bang
    • Baldvin Jonsson
    • Ulrika Ådén
    • Thomas Abrahamsson

  • PubMed: 39945202
  • DOI: 10.1111/apa.70030

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Language Score

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Clinical

  Mean language score after supplementation with L. reuteri was 90 (95% confidence interval: 85-95) compared to 83 in the placebo group (95% CI: 78-88), p = 0.04.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  2.5 × 10^8 colony forming units daily