Wagner, Nathalia Ramori Farinha http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0058-2859
Ramos, Marilia Rizzon Zaparolli
de Oliveira Carlos, Ligia
da Cruz, Magda Rosa Ramos
Taconeli, Cesar Augusto
Filho, Alcides José Branco
Nassif, Luis Sergio
Schieferdecker, Maria Eliana Madalozzo
Campos, Antônio Carlos Ligocki
Article History
Received: 14 April 2020
Revised: 31 July 2020
Accepted: 31 July 2020
First Online: 11 August 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR) under the number 2.810.276.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. The probiotics were donated by Bariatric Advantage (Aliso Viejo, CA, USA) and placebo and glucose by Dermatologica Pharmacy (Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil). The authors report non-financial support from Bariatric Advantage or Dermatologica Pharmacy. They had no influence on writing or interpreting the data.
: The authors declare that informed written consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.