Table 1 |
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| Excluded studies, with reasons for exclusion | ||||||||
| Reasons for exclusion of studies | ||||||||
| Use of breast milk or mixed feeds (breast milk, formula, other milk – cow, buffalo, goat milk) | No use of probiotic, prebiotic | Cross over trial / study, Not RCT | Type of feed not clear / specified | Different inclusion criteria or outcomes | Data for end of treatment period not available | Data presentation inappropriate for Meta -analysis | ||
| Allen 201061 | Magne 200879 | Brunser 198967 | Bongers 200766 | Panigrahi 200882 | Augustina 200760 | Isolauri 200073 | Rautava 200983 | Decsi 200570 |
| Baldeon 200865 | Mah 200780 | Thibault 200491 | Euler 200571 | Karvonen 199996 | Alliet 200762 | Knol 200575 | Rinne 200585 | |
| Chandra 200268 | Rinne 200686 | Kim 200774 | Karvonen 200197 | Bakker-Zierikzee 200563 | Nopchinda 200281 | Velaphi 200894 | ||
| Kuitunen 200976 | Saavedra 200488 | Rigo 200184 | Bakker-Zierikzee 200664 | Rivero 200487 | ||||
| Kukkonen 200777 | Sepp 199390 | Savino 200389 | Correa 200569 | Urao 199992 | ||||
| Kukkonen 200878 | Vendt 200695 | Hol 200872 | Van der Aa 201093 | |||||
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