ArticleScientific reports2020
Gut microbiota and metabolic health among overweight and obese individuals.
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- Impacts of Lifestyle and Microbiota-Targeted Interventions for Overweight and Obesity on the Human Gut Microbiome: A Systematic Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Pooled it
- Microbiome Composition in Microscopic Colitis: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Pooled it
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- Gut Microbiome Composition in Obese and Non-Obese Persons: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
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- Effects of Mediterranean diet or Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction during pregnancy on maternal gut and vaginal microbiota: a subanalysis of the Improving Mothers for a better PrenAtal Care Trial BarCeloNa (IMPACT BCN) trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Trial
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- Effect of Lactobacillus plantarum LMT1-48 on Body Fat in Overweight Subjects: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial.Diabetes & metabolism journal · 2023Trial
- Treatment With Multi-Species Probiotics Changes the Functions, Not the Composition of Gut Microbiota in Postmenopausal Women With Obesity: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Trial
- Gut Microbiota Serves a Predictable Outcome of Short-Term Low-Carbohydrate Diet (LCD) Intervention for Patients with Obesity.Microbiology spectrum · 2021Trial
- High-fat diet-derived metabolite uridine diphosphate (UDP) impairs epithelial regeneration by P2YGut microbes · 2026Article
- Divergent ectopic fat distribution and adipokine/hepatokine levels characterize the metabolically healthy overweight/obesity phenotype.iScience · 2026Article
- Impact of Triacetin- and Tributyrin-Based Formulations on IBS Microbiome Composition and SCFA Profiles: A Preclinical Study.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- The Gut Microbiome-Endocrine Axis in Obesity: Mechanisms and Therapeutics.Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology · 2026Review
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- Comparative gut microbiota profiling of obese and normal-weight indian adults using 16S rRNA sequencing.Molecular biology reports · 2026Article
- Network topology of the gut microbiome associates with metabolic health in obesity.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Gut Microbiome in Obesity: A Narrative Review of Mechanisms, Interventions, and Future Directions.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Review
- Integrated Metagenomic and Metabolomic Profiling Identifies Predictive Biomarkers for Overweight Status in a Mongolian Population.Microorganisms · 2026Article
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Abstract
Although obesity is associated with numerous diseases, the risks of disease may depend on metabolic health. Associations between the gut microbiota, obesity, and metabolic syndrome have been reported, but differences in microbiomes according to metabolic health in the obese population have not been explored in previous studies. Here, we investigated the composition of gut microbiota according to metabolic health status in obese and overweight subjects. A total of 747 overweight or obese adults were categorized by metabolic health status, and their fecal microbiota were profiled using 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing. We classified these adults into a metabolically healthy group (MH, N = 317) without any components of metabolic syndrome or a metabolically unhealthy group (MU, N = 430) defined as having at least one metabolic abnormality. The phylogenetic and non-phylogenetic alpha diversity for gut microbiota were lower in the MU group than the MH group, and there were significant differences in gut microbiota bacterial composition between the two groups. We found that the genus Oscillospira and the family Coriobacteriaceae were associated with good metabolic health in the overweight and obese populations. This is the first report to describe gut microbial diversity and composition in metabolically healthy and unhealthy overweight and obese individuals. Modulation of the gut microbiome may help prevent metabolic abnormalities in the obese population.
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