Streptococcus thermophilus SEBiotic and Reduced Serum Collagen Type II C-Telopeptide (sCTX-II)

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  • 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

  • Reduced Serum Collagen Type II C-Telopeptide (sCTX-II)

  • High evidence

  TCI633 could improve serum collagen type II C-telopeptide (sCTX-II) by 41.58% after the study. The improvement rates for sCTX-II in TCI633 group were 54% at 12 weeks.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate