TABLE 6.

Associations between fecal microbiota and serum cholesterol and LDL cholesterol in the walnut treatment group¹

	Cholesterol, mg/dL		LDL cholesterol, mg/dL
Genera, % of sequences	ρ	P	ρ	P
Ruminococcus	−0.39	0.10	−0.33	0.19
Dorea	−0.03	0.89	−0.13	0.62
Faecalibacterium	0.26	0.30	0.31	0.21
Roseburia	0.14	0.58	0.10	0.70
Clostridium	0.20	0.43	−0.02	0.94
Oscillospira	−0.21	0.41	−0.39	0.11
Dialister	−0.20	0.42	−0.16	0.52
Bifidobacterium	0.17	0.49	0.03	0.92

¹Relations between change from baseline fecal bacterial sequence abundances that were significantly affected by walnut consumption and serum total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol concentrations were assessed in the walnut treatment group (n = 18) with the use of bivariate correlations (Spearman's ρ).