bifidobacterium longum and Reduced Risk of Necrotizing Enterocolitis

• Efficacy and Safety of Bifidobacterium longum Supplementation in Infants: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

  • 2023-12-12
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Foods 12(24)
  • • Huangda Guo
    • Meng Fan
    • Tianjiao Hou
    • Yixin Li
    • Siyue Wang
    • Xueheng Wang
    • Hexiang Peng
    • Mengying Wang
    • Tao Wu
    • Yumei Zhang

  • PubMed: 38137255
  • DOI: 10.3390/foods12244451

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced Risk of Necrotizing Enterocolitis

  • High evidence
  • Infants

  The combined extracted data showed that the intervention group containing Bifidobacterium longum had a significantly lower risk of NEC (RR = 0.539, 95% CI: 0.333, 0.874) compared to the control group.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes