date:May 11, 2012
,Enterococcus, and/orBacillus.
The majority of the RCTs used Lactobacillus-based interventions alone or in combination with other genera, however the authors said that strains were poorly documented.
Across the 63 RCTs the team found that probiotic use was associated with a 42% lower risk of developing diarrhea compared with a control group not using probiotics. Hempel added that results wereconsistent across a number of subgroup and sensitivity analyses.
As such, the RAND analysis estimates t