Contemporary Clinical Trials

Synbiotic to Attenuate Resorption of the Skeleton (STARS): Design and participant recruitment of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to test the efficacy of SBD111 medical food in older women

By Josie G. Ford, Evelyn F. O’Neill, Catherine Tolland, Shivani Sahni

Trial in 42 peopleInterventions

18 months

The paper

Josie G. Ford, Evelyn F. O’Neill, Catherine Tolland, Shivani Sahni

Contemporary Clinical Trials, 8 Oct 2026

doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2026.108501 PubMed 42849708

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