Table 1.

Effects of infusion sodium propionate on the diversity of colonic microbial community at the 3% dissimilarity level

Item	Saline	Propionate	P‐value
OTUs	608 ± 42	692 ± 23	0.104
Coverage (%)	99.03 ± 0.06	98.92 ± 0.04	0.123
Diversity indices
Simpson	0.07 ± 0.01	0.11 ± 0.02	0.204
Shannon	3.77 ± 0.08	3.69 ± 0.14	0.624
Richness
Chao	907.35 ± 56.28	1054.75 ± 33.23	0.044
Ace	1089.48 ± 71.23	1251.44 ± 31.81	0.070

Ace, abundance‐based coverage estimator; OTUs, Operational taxonomic units.