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| Title |
Lactobacillus fermentum (PCC®) supplementation and gastrointestinal and respiratory-tract illness symptoms: a randomised control trial in athletes
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Nutrition Journal, April 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1475-2891-10-30 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nicholas P West, David B Pyne, Allan W Cripps, William G Hopkins, Dorte C Eskesen, Ashok Jairath, Claus T Christophersen, Michael A Conlon, Peter A Fricker |
| Abstract |
Probiotics purportedly reduce symptoms of gastrointestinal and upper respiratory-tract illness by modulating commensal microflora. Preventing and reducing symptoms of respiratory and gastrointestinal illness are the primary reason that dietary supplementation with probiotics are becoming increasingly popular with healthy active individuals. There is a paucity of data regarding the effectiveness of probiotics in this cohort. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a probiotic on faecal microbiology, self-reported illness symptoms and immunity in healthy well trained individuals. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 38% |
| Spain | 3 | 38% |
| Unknown | 2 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 321 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 314 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 58 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 57 | 18% |
| Researcher | 35 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 10% |
| Other | 14 | 4% |
| Other | 45 | 14% |
| Unknown | 80 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 65 | 20% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 46 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 36 | 11% |
| Sports and Recreations | 31 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 14 | 4% |
| Other | 38 | 12% |
| Unknown | 91 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 April 2022.
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#1,306,126
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Outputs from Nutrition Journal
#350
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#5,237
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Outputs of similar age from Nutrition Journal
#10
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,578,176 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,447 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 37.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its peers.
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