Preventive Effect of Bifidobacterium Supplementation on Neonatal Cholestasis in Preterm Neonates with Very Low Birth Weight

Table 4

Duration of hospitalization and other clinical outcomes in the study subjects with or without Bifidobacterium supplementation.

	Bifidobacterium group	Control group
Time to reach total enteral feeding (days)				<0.01
Duration of meconium passage (days)				0.039
Percentage of cases on fasting (%)	2 (0.80)	14 (5.60)		0.04
Duration of fasting (d)				<0.01
Duration of weight gain to normal (days)				<0.01
Duration of hospitalization (days)				<0.01

Note: the Chi-squared () test was used for comparison of enumeration data of two paired groups. The independent sample -test was used to compare the means of two sets of data. was considered as significant difference between the two groups.