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ReviewNutrients2024

Prebiotic Strategies to Manage Lactose Intolerance Symptoms.

Gloria Angima, Yunyao Qu, Si Hong Park, David C Dallas

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Review in Nutrients, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  6. The gut microbiome connects nutrition and human health.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2025
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  8. [Lactose Malabsorption and Intolerance].Acta gastroenterologica Latinoamericana
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gloria AngimaDepartment of Food Science & Technology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
Yunyao QuDepartment of Food Science & Technology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
Si Hong ParkDepartment of Food Science & Technology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
David C DallasDepartment of Food Science & Technology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9696-0967
Oregon State University · US

Funding

BUILD Dairy NAthe Oregon Dairy Nutrition Council NAthe USDA Multistate Workgroup W4002 NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lactose intolerance, which affects about 65-75% of the world's population, is caused by a genetic post-weaning deficiency of lactase, the enzyme required to digest the milk sugar lactose, called lactase non-persistence. Symptoms of lactose intolerance include abdominal pain, bloating and diarrhea. Genetic variations, namely lactase persistence, allow some individuals to metabolize lactose effectively post-weaning, a trait thought to be an evolutionary adaptation to dairy consumption. Although lactase non-persistence cannot be altered by diet, prebiotic strategies, including the consumption of galactooligosaccharides (GOSs) and possibly low levels of lactose itself, may shift the microbiome and mitigate symptoms of lactose consumption. This review discusses the etiology of lactose intolerance and the efficacy of prebiotic approaches like GOSs and low-dose lactose in symptom management.

Indexed as

Lactose IntoleranceAbdominal PainBiological EvolutionHumansLactaseLactosePrebioticsLactaseLactosePrebioticsbeta-galactosidaseBifidobacteriumgalactooligosaccharideshypolactasialactase-phlorizin hydrolase

Identifiers

PMID38613035
PMCPMC11013211
OpenAlexW4393317543

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