Oat Bran and Reduced White Blood Cell Count

• Synbiotics protected radiation-induced tissue damage in rectal cancer patients: A controlled trial.

  • 2025-06
  • RCT
  • Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) 49
  • • Christina Stene
    • Jie Xu
    • Sérgio Fallone de Andrade
    • Ingrid Palmquist
    • Göran Molin
    • Siv Ahrné
    • Henrik Thorlacius
    • Louis B Johnson
    • Bengt Jeppsson

  • PubMed: 40250086
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2025.03.025

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced White Blood Cell Count

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  The Fiber and Synbiotics groups exhibited a significant reduction in white blood cell counts following RT (p = 0.01 for both), whereas the Ctrl group did not demonstrate a significant change. However, there was no significant difference in the magnitude of change in white blood cell counts among the three groups (p = 0.12).

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No