Could Gut Microbiota Composition Be a Useful Indicator of a Long-Term Dietary Pattern?

ABSTRACT: Despite the known effects of diet on gut microbiota composition, not many studies have evaluated the relationship between distinct dietary patterns and gut microbiota. The aim of our study was to determine whether gut microbiota composition could be a useful indicator of a long-term dietary pattern. We collected data from 89 subjects adhering to omnivorous, vegetarian, vegan, and low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet that were equally distributed between groups and homogenous by age, gender, and BMI. Gut microbiota composition was analyzed with a metabarcoding approach using V4 hypervariable region of the 16S rRNA gene. K-means clustering of gut microbiota at the genus level was performed and the nearest neighbor classifier was applied to predict microbiota clustering classes. Our results sugges

SUBMITTER: Sik Novak K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10181102 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature