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. 2013 Apr 30;5:10. doi: 10.1186/1757-4749-5-10

Table 2.

Most important associations between gut microbiota and dietary compounds represented by regression coefficient β (p value)

 
Dietary compounds
  Carbohydrates (en%) Fat (en%) Protein (en%) Fibre (g/d) Energy intake (kcal/d)
Quantitative plating
 
 
 
 
 
Bacteroides fragilis group
0.127 (0.110)
0.129 (0.129)
0.001 (0.987)
 
−0.000 (0.620)
Bifidobacterium spp.
−0.025 (0.410)
 
 
 
0.000 (0.822)
Clostridium spp.
 
 
 
 
0.001 (0.156)
Staphylococcus spp.
 
 
 
 
0.001 (0.028)*
Lactobacillus spp.
0.069 (0.360)
0.104 (0.180)
 
 
 
qPCR
 
 
 
 
 
Bacteroides-Prevotella-Porphyromonas spp.
0.048 (0.319)
0.069 (0.220)
 
 
−0.000 (0.830)
Bifidobacterium spp.
0.017 (0.439)
 
 
 
0.000 (0.285)
Clostridium coccoides-Eubacterium rectale group
 
 
 
 
0.000 (0.269)
Clostridium leptum group
 
 
 
 
0.000 (0.240)
Staphylococcus spp.
−0.093 (0.203)
−0.084 (0.285)
−0.083 (0.075)
 
0.000 (0.691)
Lactobacillus spp. 0.052 (0.503) 0.069 (0.401) −0.000 (0.993) 0.010 (0.745) 0.000 (0.415)

Regression coefficient with 95% CI. *Significant association with p value < 0.05.