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ArticleEuropean journal of medical research2023

Predictive value of gut microbiota in long-term blood pressure control: a cross-sectional study.

Guobin Kang, Hongtao He, Huawei Miao, Tiejun Zhang, Zongde Meng, Xia Li

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Article in European journal of medical research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Guobin KangDepartment of Cardiology, Hebei Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, No. 389 of Zhongshan East Street, Chang'an District, Shijiazhuang, 050000, Hebei, China.
Hongtao HeDepartment of Cardiology, Hebei Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, No. 389 of Zhongshan East Street, Chang'an District, Shijiazhuang, 050000, Hebei, China.
Huawei MiaoDepartment of Cardiology, Hebei Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, No. 389 of Zhongshan East Street, Chang'an District, Shijiazhuang, 050000, Hebei, China.
Tiejun ZhangDepartment of Cardiology, Hebei Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, No. 389 of Zhongshan East Street, Chang'an District, Shijiazhuang, 050000, Hebei, China.
Zongde MengDepartment of Internal Medicine, Hebei Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, 050000, Hebei, China.
Xia LiDepartment of Cardiology, Hebei Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine, No. 389 of Zhongshan East Street, Chang'an District, Shijiazhuang, 050000, Hebei, China. lixia1787@163.com.
Hospital of Hebei Province · CN

Funding

Scientific research project of Hebei Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2020020Scientific research project of Hebei Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2020074
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo investigate the prediction of long-term blood pressure control using the intestinal flora of patients with hypertension.

methodsA total of 125 patients with primary grade-2 hypertension who attended the cardiovascular department of Hebei Province Hospital of Chinese Medicine between April 2021 and April 2022 were enrolled; these included 65 patients with substandard long-term blood pressure control (the uncontrolled group) and 60 patients with standard long-term blood pressure control (the controlled group). General clinical data and data on morning stools and diet were recorded for all the enrolled patients. The 16 s rDNA sequencing of faecal intestinal flora was also performed to analyse the differences in intestinal flora between the two groups of patients and to investigate the relationship between blood pressure compliance and the presence of flora.

resultsThe intestinal flora of the two groups of patients differed in terms of the Firmicutes-Bacteroidetes ratio (F/B), α-diversity analysis (Chao1, ACE and Shannon) results and β-diversity analysis results. At the genus level, the number of Streptococcus and Paraprevotella in patients in the uncontrolled group was greater than that of the controlled group, and the level of Akkermansia and Bifidobacterium was lower than that in the controlled group. A logistic regression analysis of the difference factors found differences in ACE, F/B, Streptococcus, Paraprevotella and Akkermansia in the two groups; these differences remained after correcting for age, gender and body mass index. The receiver operating characteristic curves revealed the following: ACE (area under the curve [AUC] = 85.282), Streptococcus (AUC = 82.705), Akkermansia (AUC = 77.333), Paraprevotella (AUC = 66.154) and F/B (AUC = 60.436).

conclusionsThere were significant differences in the intestinal flora of the patients in the controlled blood group compared with that of the uncontrolled group. Therefore, the ACE, genus levels of Streptococcus and Akkermansia could provide some prediction of late blood pressure compliance or non-compliance in patients with hypertension.

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Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeHypertensionBlood PressureBody Mass IndexCross-Sectional StudiesHumansBalanceBlood pressure controlDiversityHypertensionIntestinal microbiotaPredictionStool

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