Enterotype May Drive the Dietary-Associated Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.

ABSTRACT: Analyses of typical bacterial clusters in humans named enterotypes may facilitate understanding the host differences in the cardiometabolic profile. It stills unknown whether the three previously described enterotypes were present in populations living below the equator. We examined how the identification of enterotypes could be useful to explain the dietary associations with cardiometabolic risk factors in Brazilian subjects. In this cross-sectional study, a convenience sample of 268 adults (54.2% women) reported their dietary habits and had clinical and biological samples collected. In this study, we analyzed biochemical data and metagenomics of fecal microbiota (16SrRNA sequencing, V4 region). Continuous variables were compared using ANOVA, and categorical variables using chi-square tes

SUBMITTER: de Moraes AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5322172 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature