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Diversity analysis of gut microbiota in osteoporosis and osteopenia patients.
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- Machine Learning Models To Characterize the Association of the Gut Microbiota with Osteopenia and Osteoporosis: A Multi-Cohort Study.Current microbiology · 2025Pooled it
- Gut microbiome and bone health: update on mechanisms, clinical correlations, and possible treatment strategies.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2025Pooled it
- The role of active constituents of in traditional Chinese medicine for primary osteoporosis: a mechanistic review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Pooled it
- Meta-Analysis Reveals Compositional and Functional Microbial Changes Associated with Osteoporosis.Microbiology spectrum · 2023Pooled it
- Anti-osteoporotic drugs affect the pathogenesis of gut microbiota and its metabolites: a clinical study.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Trial
- Chondroitin sulfate modulates gut microbiota to improve bone metabolism and reduce locomotion problems in yellow-feathered broilers.Animal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui) · 2026Article
- Links between bone fractures and the gut microbiota.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2026Review
- The gut-bone axis: impact of diet on gut microbiome and osteoporosis.Bone research · 2026Review
- Role of the gut microbiota in the pathogenesis and therapeutic approach to osteoporosis (Review).Biomedical reports · 2026Review
- The brain-bone-gut axis: a microbial bridge underlying multisystem comorbidities.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Review
- Gut microbiota-mediated Th17/Treg regulation in osteoporotic fracture: from postmenopausal dysbiosis to callus repair.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Physical exercise therapy as an anti-aging strategy for osteosarcopenia: a narrative review.Frontiers in aging · 2026Review
- Gut microbiota in chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder: shared mechanisms, disease-specific signatures, and therapeutic prospects.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Review
- Dietary patterns and osteoporosis risk in a high-altitude population: the roles of gut microbiota and plasma metabolites in a case-control study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Oral Administration ofJournal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Gut microbiota-derived TMAO drives the kidney-bone-vascular axis in chronic kidney disease complications.Renal failure · 2025Review
- Exploring osteomicrobiology: A narrative review of the gut-bone axis in osteoporosis.Irish journal of medical science · 2025Review
- Gut microbiome in early life and bone health outcomes at age 6: a Danish mother-child cohort study.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2025Article
- Effects of a high-fat diet on gut microbiota and possible implications for bone health in male Wistar rats.Lipids · 2025Article
- Tryptophan-producing bacteria to mitigate osteoporosis and intestinal dysfunction.Bioactive materials · 2025Article
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Abstract
Some evidence suggests that bone health can be regulated by gut microbiota. To better understand this, we performed 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing to analyze the intestinal microbial diversity in primary osteoporosis (OP) patients, osteopenia (ON) patients and normal controls (NC). We observed an inverse correlation between the number of bacterial taxa and the value of bone mineral density. The diversity estimators in the OP and ON groups were increased compared with those in the NC group. Beta diversity analyses based on hierarchical clustering and principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) could discriminate the NC samples from OP and ON samples. Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria constituted the four dominant phyla in all samples. Proportion of Firmicutes was significantly higher and Bacteroidetes was significantly lower in OP samples than that in NC samples (
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