Probiotics, prebiotics infant formula use in preterm or low birth weight infants: a systematic review

Nutrition Journal

Table 2 Excluded studies with reasons for exclusion

Reasons for exclusion of studies
Use of breast milk or mixed feeds (breast milk and formula)			Nouse of probiotic, prebiotic	Follow up - study, Not RCT	Duplicate publishing	Different inclusion criteria and outcomes	Type of feed unspecified
Agarwal 2003 [52]	Lin H-C 2008 [53]	Riskin 2009 [54]	Andrews 1969 [55]	Chou I-C 2009 [56]	Stansbridge 1993 [57]	Cukrowska 2002 [58]	Karvonen 2002 [51]
Bin-Nun 2005 [59]	Manzoni 2006 [60]	Rouge 2009 [61]	Taylor 2009 [62]	Hoyos 1999 [63]		Wang 2007 [64]
Dani 2002 [65]	Millar 1993 [66]	Samanta 2005 [67]		Lidesteri 2003 [68]
Kitajima 1997 [69]	Mohan 2006 [70]	Westerbeek 2008 [71]
Lee 2007 [72]	Mohan 2008 [73]	Westerbeek 2010 [74]
Lin H-C 2005 [75]	Patole 2005 [76]	Yong Gu 2009 [77]

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