Probiotics for preventing acute upper respiratory tract infections.
Authors not in graph record · peer-reviewed
Study design and participants
- Design
- Cochrane systematic review / meta-analysis of RCTs
- Sample size
- 12
- Population
- adults and children
- Intervention and protocol
- strain- and trial-dependent
Results
- Probiotics → immune function: positive; effect size not reported.
Limitations, bias, and funding
Risk of bias: moderate
Funding: not reported
- Recorded risk of bias: moderate.