Table 2. Results of envfit analyses testing for correlation of patient characteristics with microbiota composition patterns detected in PCoA graph.

	p value of correlation with PCoA plane
	axis 1-axis 2	axis 1-axis 3
all samples included (n = 40)
histological diagnosis	0.14	0.29
histopathology score	0.30	0.40
patient age	0.06	0.09
patient sex	0.55	0.19
town	0.0012	0.24
samples with available cagPAI status (n = 38)
cagPAI status	0.25	0.77
samples with H. pylori population data (n = 33)
% AA1	0.45	0.48
% AA1 > 20%?	0.39	0.39
% AA1 > 50%?	0.28	0.30
modern H. pylori population	0.47	0.42

P values were based on 10,000 permutations. P values ≤ 0.05 (bold text) are considered significant.