The effect of pre/pro/synbiotics on cardiometabolic health in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: A systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-evidence
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Abstract
Although many studies have revealed the benefits of biotics on health outcomes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the findings are inconclusive. Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, Cochran, and Embase were searched to identify RCTs on prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics on health outcomes. Results of twenty-one RCTs showed high-quality evidence supporting prebiotics or synbiotics effects, in reducing weight (SMD: −0.24, 95 % CI: −0.47, −0.01) BMI (SMD: −0.28, 95 % CI: −0.53, −0.03), moderate-quality evidence for WC (SMD: −0.57, 95 % CI: −0.96, −0.18), MDA (SMD: −0.77, 95 % CI: −1.17, −0.37), TG (SMD: −0.42, 95 % CI: −0.80, −0.04), LDL-C (SMD:−0.44, 95 %CI: −0.88, −0.01), and total testosterone (SMD: −1.30, 95 % CI: −2.02, −0.57) improvements, and led to a moderate-quality evidence increase for TAC (SMD: 0.58, 95 % CI: 0.14, 1.01), and HDL-C (SMD: 0.34, 95 % CI: 0.03, 0.65). Probiotics led to significant reductions in insulin (SMD: −0.66, 95 %CI: −1.18, −0.14), HOMA-IR (SMD: -0.80, 95 %CI: −1.52, −0.09), and TG (SMD: -0.48, 95 %CI: −0.85, −0.11). This meta-analysis suggests that prebiotics, probiotics or synbiotics, might beneficially affect several health outcomes in patients with PCOS.
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Journal of Functional Foods continues with the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review. We give authors the possibility to publish their top-quality papers in a well-established leading journal in the food and nutrition fields. The Journal will keep its rigorous criteria to screen high impact research addressing relevant scientific topics and performed by sound methodologies.
The Journal of Functional Foods aims to bring together the results of fundamental and applied research into healthy foods and biologically active food ingredients.
The Journal is centered in the specific area at the boundaries among food technology, nutrition and health welcoming papers having a good interdisciplinary approach. The Journal will cover the fields of plant bioactives; dietary fibre, probiotics; functional lipids; bioactive peptides; vitamins, minerals and botanicals and other dietary supplements. Nutritional and technological aspects related to the development of functional foods and beverages are of core interest to the journal. Experimental works dealing with food digestion, bioavailability of food bioactives and on the mechanisms by which foods and their components are able to modulate physiological parameters connected with disease prevention are of particular interest as well as those dealing with personalized nutrition and nutritional needs in pathological subjects.