Wong, Samford http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3975-5684
Hirani, Shashivadan P.
Forbes, Alastair
Kumar, Naveen
Hariharan, Ramaswamy
O’Driscoll, Jean
Sekhar, Ravi
Jamous, Ali
Funding for this research was provided by:
Yakult Honsha 13UK-1-SMH-AAD2
Article History
Received: 13 June 2023
Revised: 8 March 2024
Accepted: 13 March 2024
First Online: 22 March 2024
Competing interests
: SW has received funding support from Yakult Honsha Co Ltd. Yakult Europe B.V. provided free LcS/Placebo and the necessary equipment to maintain the cold chain. The company was aware of, but did not influence the trial design, and had no role in data analysis and interpretation. AF has received honoraria form Fresenius Kabi, Takeda and Dr Falk Pharma. SW as chief investigator and corresponding author had full access to the final dataset and made final decision to submit for publication.