ArticleMicrobiologyOpen2017
Gut microbiome diversity influenced more by the Westernized dietary regime than the body mass index as assessed using effect size statistic.
Article in MicrobiologyOpen, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Differences in Alpha Diversity of Gut Microbiota in Neurological Diseases.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Gut Microbiome Composition in Obese and Non-Obese Persons: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- Profile of the gut microbiota of adults with obesity: a systematic review.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Pooled it
- The Human Microbiota and Obesity: A Literature Systematic Review of In Vivo Models and Technical Approaches.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Pooled it
- Ketogenic Diet and Brain Health: Cerebrovascular Mechanisms, Neuroprotection, and Translational Implications.Nutrients · 2026Review
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- Stabilized and unstabilized sampling methods result in differential fecal 16S rRNA microbial sequencing results.PloS one · 2025Article
- Exploring the relationship between ultra-processed food consumption and gut microbiota at school age in a Brazilian birth cohort.Cadernos de saude publica · 2025Article
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- [Gut Microbiota and Obesity].The Korean journal of helicobacter and upper gastrointestinal research · 2023Review
- The Crosstalk between Gut Microbiota and White Adipose Tissue Mitochondria in Obesity.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Relationship between Diet Quality and Maternal Stool Microbiota in the MUMS Australian Pregnancy Cohort.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Zinc Supplementation Partially Decreases the Harmful Effects of a Cafeteria Diet in Rats but Does Not Prevent Intestinal Dysbiosis.Nutrients · 2022Article
- The effects of probiotics on risk and time preferences.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The Stance4Health Project: Evaluating a Smart Personalised Nutrition Service for Gut Microbiota Modulation in Normal- and Overweight Adults and Children with Obesity, Gluten-Related Disorders or Allergy/Intolerance to Cow's Milk.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A Guide to Dietary Pattern-Microbiome Data Integration.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Review
- Gut microbiota in patients with obesity and metabolic disorders - a systematic review.Genes & nutrition · 2022Review
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Abstract
Human gut microbiome dysbiosis has been associated with the onset of metabolic diseases and disorders. However, the critical factors leading to dysbiosis are poorly understood. In this study, we provide increasing evidence of the association of diet type and body mass index (BMI) and how they relatively influence the taxonomic structure of the gut microbiota with respect to the causation of gut microbiome dysbiosis. The study included randomly selected Alabama residents (n = 81), including females (n = 45) and males (n = 36). The demographics data included age (33 ± 13.3 years), height (1.7 ± 0.11 meters), and weight (82.3 ± 20.6 kg). The mean BMI was 28.3 ± 7.01, equating to an overweight BMI category. A cross-sectional case-control design encompassing the newly recognized effect size approach to bioinformatics analysis was used to analyze data from donated stool samples and accompanying nutrition surveys. We investigated the microbiome variations in the Bacteroidetes-Firmicutes ratio relative to BMI, food categories, and dietary groups at stratified abundance percentages of <20%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, and ≥70%. We further investigated variation in the Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes phyla composition (at the genus and species level) in relation to BMI, food categories, and dietary groups (Westernized or healthy). The Pearson Correlation coefficient as an indication of effect size across Alpha diversity indices was used to test the hypothesis (H
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