ReviewFrontiers in nutrition2022
The effects of supplementation of probiotics, prebiotics, or synbiotics on patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Review in Frontiers in nutrition, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of synbiotics on the cardiovascular risk factors in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver: a GRADE assessed systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC gastroenterology · 2025Pooled it
- An umbrella meta-analysis of microbial therapy on hepatic steatosis, fibrosis, and liver stiffness in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Global research trends on gut microbiota and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis: Insights from bibliometric and scientometric analysis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Pooled it
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- The Gut-Liver Axis in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD): Mechanisms, Microbiome Interactions and Therapeutic Targets.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Review
- Impact of probiotics and prebiotics on glucose/lipid metabolism in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: mechanisms and implications.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Research advances on gut microbiota dysbiosis and chronic liver diseases: a review.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- Pathogenesis and Clinical Management of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Gut feeling gone wrong: Tangled relationship between disorders of gut-brain interaction and liver disease.World journal of hepatology · 2025Review
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- Epithelial barrier hypothesis in the context of nutrition, microbial dysbiosis, and immune dysregulation in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Modulation of gut microbiome in response to the combination ofFrontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- New Insights into the Pathogenesis of Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD): Gut-Liver-Heart Crosstalk.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Elucidating Cuproptosis-Associated Genes in the Progression from Nash to HCC Using Bulk and Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analyses and Experimental Validation.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- The Intestinal Microbiome and the Metabolic Syndrome-How Its Manipulation May Affect Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD).Current issues in molecular biology · 2023Review
- Probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and alcohol-associated liver disease.American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology · 2023Review
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- Breaking the barriers: the role of gut homeostasis in Metabolic-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD).Gut microbesReview
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most prevalent chronic liver disease. Research on the efficacy of probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics on NAFLD patients continues to be inconsistent. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of these microbial therapies on NAFLD. Methods: Eligible randomized-controlled trials reporting the effect of probiotics, prebiotics, or synbiotics in NAFLD were searched in PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Google scholar, and CNKI databases from 2020 to Jul 2022. The changes in the outcomes were analyzed using standard mean difference (SMD) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) with a random- or fixed-effects model to examine the effect of microbial therapies. Subgroup analysis, influence and publication bias analysis were also performed. The quality of the eligible studies was evaluated using the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool. Results: Eleven studies met the inclusion criteria involving 741 individuals. Microbial therapies could improve liver steatosis, total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), low-density lipoprotein (LDL-c), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT), and homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance (HOMAI-R) (all Conclusion: Probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics supplementation can potentially improve liver enzymes, lipid profiles, and liver steatosis in patients with NAFLD.
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