Effects of probiotics on necrotizing enterocolitis, sepsis, intraventricular hemorrhage, mortality, length of hospital stay, and weight gain in very preterm infants: A meta-analysis

Advances in Nutrition

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 749-763

  Sun, Jing ^a,b   Marwah, Gayatri ^a   Westgarth, Matthew ^a   Buys, Nicholas ^b   Ellwood, David ^a,c   Gray, Peter H ^d,e  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GOLD COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d MATER MOTHERS HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hospital admission; Mortality; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Probiotics; Sepsis; Very preterm infants

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

BLEEDING; BODY WEIGHT GAIN; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; PROBIOTICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 85029545951     PISSN: 21618313     EISSN: 21565376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/an.116.014605     Document Type: Article

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