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ArticleMiddle East journal of digestive diseases2016

The Effect of Probiotic Plus Prebiotic Supplementation on the Tolerance and Efficacy of

Afshin Shafaghi, Aydin Pourkazemi, Mohsen Khosravani, Saba Fakhrie Asl, Alireza Amir Maafi, Zahra Atrkar Roshan, Jafar Abaspour Rahimabad

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Article in Middle East journal of digestive diseases, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Efficacy of probiotics pretreatment inAnnals of medicine · 2025
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  5. The Effects of Synbiotic "Canadian journal of gastroenterology & hepatology · 2017
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  6. Adjunctive Synbiotic Therapy forLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  7. Towards EffectiveInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  12. The interplay betweenFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
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  13. Evaluation of the Potential Protective Effects ofThe Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2022
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  17. Current and Future Treatment of Helicobacter pylori Infections.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Afshin ShafaghiMember of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Research Center(GLDRC) and Gastroenterology Department, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran gjhsdfgjfdh.
Aydin PourkazemiInfectious Disease Department, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
Mohsen KhosravaniGuilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
Saba Fakhrie AslGastroenterology Department, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
Alireza Amir MaafiStudent Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
Zahra Atrkar RoshanStudent Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
Jafar Abaspour RahimabadMember of Caspian Tamin Pharmaceutical Company, Rasht, Iran.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND Standard anti-H

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H. pylori eradicationPrebioticProbioticQuadruple therapyRCTSynbiotic

Identifiers

PMID27698967
PMCPMC5045670

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