Overall Dietary Quality Relates to Gut Microbiota Diversity and Abundance
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. The Study Population
2.2. Dietary Quality in Relation to Gut Microbiota Diversity
2.3. Dietary Quality in Relation to Gut Microbiota Abundancies
3. Discussion
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Design and Participants
4.2. Dietary Quality Index
4.3. Gut Microbiota Diversity Indexes and Abundancies
4.4. Statistics
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
IDQ | Index of diet quality |
OTU | Operational taxonomic unit |
PD | Phylogenetic diversity |
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Variable | Values |
---|---|
Characteristics | |
Age (years) | 30.1 (4.7) |
Pre-pregnancy BMI (kg/m2) | 30.3 (4.6) |
Obese | 40/84 (48%) |
Overweight | 44/84 (52%) |
Primipara | 31% (26/84) |
University degree | 58% (45/77) |
Gestational weeks | 14.0 (11.0–15.0) |
Dietary Quality | |
IDQ score | 9.84 (8.0–11.97) |
Good dietary quality (IDQ scores ≥10) | 49% (41/84) |
Gut microbiota Diversity Index | |
PD | 36.9 (31.3–39.9) |
Chao | 390.1 (346.0–421.3) |
Observed OTUs | 343.7 (296.4–373.8) |
Shannon | 5.4 (5.2–5.8) |
Index | IDQ Lowest Quartile (n = 25) 7 (5.9–7.5) | IDQ Highest Quartile (n = 21) 13 (12.0–13.0) | p-Value 2 |
---|---|---|---|
Shannon | 5.3 (4.8–5.5) | 5.7 (5.4–6.0) | 0.001 |
PD | 35.4 (29.7–38.8) | 39.7 (35.3–41.5) | 0.010 |
Chao | 374.5 (326.3–403.3) | 415.0 (380.3–423.9) | 0.019 |
Observed OTUs | 333.7 (284.5–358.9) | 363.2 (334.7–374.0) | 0.032 |
Index | IDQ < 10, (n = 43) | IDQ ≥ 10, (n = 41) | p-Value 2 |
---|---|---|---|
Shannon | 5.4 (4.9–5.6) | 5.7 (5.4–5.9) | 0.004 |
PD | 34.7 (30.0–39.0) | 39.4 (33.3–41.2) | 0.055 |
Chao | 383.9 (342.6–419.9) | 407.5 (352.2–431.5) | 0.087 |
Observed OTUs | 330.1 (292.9–367.4) | 360.8 (313.8–380.5) | 0.052 |
IDQ Food Group | Consumption Frequency | p-Value 2 | |
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7 Days/Week | ≤6 Days/Week | ||
Whole grains | 5.6 (5.3–5.9) | 5.4 (4.9–5.7) | 0.031 |
Vegetables | 5.6 (5.3–5.9) | 5.4 (4.9–5.6) | 0.016 |
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Laitinen, K.; Mokkala, K. Overall Dietary Quality Relates to Gut Microbiota Diversity and Abundance. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2019, 20, 1835. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20081835
Laitinen K, Mokkala K. Overall Dietary Quality Relates to Gut Microbiota Diversity and Abundance. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2019; 20(8):1835. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20081835
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaitinen, Kirsi, and Kati Mokkala. 2019. "Overall Dietary Quality Relates to Gut Microbiota Diversity and Abundance" International Journal of Molecular Sciences 20, no. 8: 1835. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20081835