Streptococcus thermophilus SEBiotic and Improved KOA Symptoms

• Oral intake of Streptococcus thermophilus improves knee osteoarthritis degeneration: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study

  • 2020-04
  • RCT · n = 80
  • Heliyon 6(4)
  • • Jianwei Lyu
    • Ting-Ming Wang
    • Yen-Hao Chen
    • Shu-Xuan Chang
    • Ming-Shiang Wu
    • Yung-Hao Lin
    • Yung-Hsiang Lin
    • Chen-Meng Kuan

  • PubMed: 32368640
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03757

  5 Insights on

  • Improved KOA Symptoms

  • High evidence

  The results of Western Ontario and McMaster Universities (WOMAC) questionnaires show that TCI633 might retard the progression and development of KOA after the trial.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate