A Meta analysis of the curative effect of probiotics on functional consti-pation

作者：ZHAO Xian-ping; XIAO Xin-yun; YIN Kang-kang; TAN Zhou-jin; TAN Da-quan

来源：中国当代医药, 2015, (9).

• Probiotics
• Functional constipation
• Meta analysis

Objective To analyze the effect of probiotics on the treatment of functional constipation. Methods Litera-ture data meeting the inclusion criteria were given the Meta-analysis using the software of Review manager 5.2,22 arti-cles which were published in recent years and conformed with the relevant criteria were reviewed;there were 2070 pa-tients and they were divided into the experiment group (n=1047,the probiotics treatment) and control group (n=1023,the basic treatment).The difference in the curative effect between the two groups was analyzed to learn the efficacy of pro-biotics on functional constipation. Results Compared with the basic treatment,there was a statistical difference of the effective rate between the two groups (95%CI was 0.20 to 0.32,the test of merger effect:Z=8.68,P <0.01). Conclusion Probiotics treating functional constipationcan has a significant effect.

• 出版日期2015
• 单位湖南中医药大学