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ReviewGut microbiome (Cambridge, England)2023

The gut microbiome in children with mood, anxiety, and neurodevelopmental disorders: An umbrella review.

Kaitlin Romano, Ashka N Shah, Anett Schumacher, Clare Zasowski, Tianyi Zhang, Glyneva Bradley-Ridout, Kaitlyn Merriman, John Parkinson, Peter Szatmari, Susan C Campisi and 1 more

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Review in Gut microbiome (Cambridge, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

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

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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

11 authors.

Kaitlin RomanoDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Ashka N ShahRoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Anett SchumacherDepartment of Psychiatry, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Clare ZasowskiDepartment of Psychiatry, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Tianyi ZhangDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Glyneva Bradley-RidoutGerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Kaitlyn MerrimanGerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
John ParkinsonProgram in Molecular Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Peter SzatmariDepartment of Psychiatry, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Susan C CampisiDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1072-9228
Daphne J KorczakDepartment of Psychiatry, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-7495

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research on the gut microbiome and mental health among children and adolescents is growing. This umbrella review provides a high-level overview of current evidence syntheses to amalgamate current research and inform future directions. Searches were conducted across seven databases for peer-reviewed pediatric (<18 years) review literature. Studies reporting gut microbiome composition and/or biotic supplementation on depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were included. Deduplication and screening took place in Covidence. A sensitivity analysis was conducted to assess the degree of primary study overlap. Among the 39 included review studies, 23 (59%) were observational and 16 (41%) were interventional. Most reviews (92%) focused on ASD. Over half (56%) of the observational and interventional reviews scored low or critically low for methodological quality. A higher abundance of

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autismchildren and adolescentsmental healthmicrobiomeumbrella review

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PMID39295902
PMCPMC11406386

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