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Trial reportNutrients2024

Impact of Synbiotic Intake on Liver Metabolism in Metabolically Healthy Participants and Its Potential Preventive Effect on Metabolic-Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD): A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blinded Clinical Trial.

Aakash Mantri, Anika Köhlmoos, Daniela Stephanie Schelski, Waldemar Seel, Birgit Stoffel-Wagner, Peter Krawitz, Peter Stehle, Jens Juul Holst, Bernd Weber, Leonie Koban and 2 more

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Nutrients, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. The Gut-Liver Axis in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: From Mechanistic Insights to Precision Therapeutics.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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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

12 authors.

Aakash MantriInstitute of Nutrition and Food Science, Nutrition and Microbiota, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6763-5674
Anika KöhlmoosInstitute of Nutrition and Food Science, Nutrition and Microbiota, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
Daniela Stephanie SchelskiCenter for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
Waldemar SeelInstitute of Nutrition and Food Science, Nutrition and Microbiota, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
Birgit Stoffel-WagnerInstitute of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Bonn, 53127 Bonn, Germany.
Peter KrawitzInstitute for Genomic Statistics and Bioinformatics, University Hospital Bonn, 53127 Bonn, Germany.
Peter StehleInstitute of Nutrition and Food Science, Nutritional Physiology, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4596-8088
Jens Juul HolstNovo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Department for Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-6853-3805
Bernd WeberCenter for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
Leonie KobanInstitut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD), 77300 Fontainebleau, France.ORCID 0000-0002-3121-6491
Hilke PlassmannInstitut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD), 77300 Fontainebleau, France.
Marie-Christine SimonInstitute of Nutrition and Food Science, Nutrition and Microbiota, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany.

Funding

Federal Ministry of Education and Research 01EA1707
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synbiotics modulate the gut microbiome and contribute to the prevention of liver diseases such as metabolic-dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD). This study aimed to evaluate the effect of a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded seven-week intervention trial on the liver metabolism in 117 metabolically healthy male participants. Anthropometric data, blood parameters, and stool samples were analyzed using linear mixed models. After seven weeks of intervention, there was a significant reduction in alanine aminotransferase (ALT) in the synbiotic group compared to the placebo group (-14.92%, CI: -26.60--3.23%,

Indexed as

Alanine TransaminaseGastrointestinal MicrobiomeLiverSynbioticsAdultDouble-Blind MethodFecesHumansMaleMiddle AgedNon-alcoholic Fatty Liver DiseaseAlanine TransaminaseALTgut–liver axisMAFLDmetabolic healthy participantmicrobiomepreventionrandomized controlled trialsynbiotics

Identifiers

PMID38732547
PMCPMC11085762

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