Table 3.
Analysis of Alpha and Beta diversity in patients
| Alpha—diversity (Kruskal–Wallis) P value |
Beta—diversity (Permanova) P value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observed_features | Shannon_entropy | Bray_Curtis | Weighted_Unifrac | Unweighted_Unifrac | |
| Gender | 0.136 | 0.114 | 0.176 | 0.209 | 0.008 |
| Age | 0.432 | 0.818 | 0.477 | 0.868 | 0.132 |
| BMI | 0.760 | 0.749 | 0.568 | 0.574 | 0.701 |
| Smoking | 0.827 | 0.965 | 0.987 | 0.872 | 0.933 |
| Marshall score | 0.765 | 0.266 | 0.939 | 0.635 | 0.555 |
| Nutrition | 1.000 | 0.579 | 0.178 | 0.319 | 0.177 |
P-values obtained from alpha and beta diversity analysis carried out on BAL samples collected from patients at T0