Table 2.

The gut microbial composition (relative abundance in %) of obese and lean participants (phylum level).

Phylum	Lean (%)	Obese (%)	q *
Firmicutes	50	47	0.32
Bacteroidetes	44	49	0.12
Proteobacteria	4	3	0.85
Actinobacteria	0.6	0.5	0.54
Verrucomicrobia	0.3	0.5	0.04*
Lentisphaerae	0.08	0.03	0.004*
Fusobacteria	0.0003	0.0001	0.20
Saccharibacteria	0.0009	0.003	0.0002*
F/B ratio	1.1	0.95	0.315

^*q ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant.