Table 4.

Baseline characteristics of patients with a low butyrogenic capacity

Age years	M/F	Ethn	Renal disease	CVD	DM	Time on dialysis months	Veg diet	PPI	PO4 binder	K binder	F. prausnitzii copies/ng input gDNA	E. rectale copies/ng input gDNA	Roseburia spp. copies/ng input gDNA	BCoAT copies/ng input gDNA	CRPmg/L	IL-6 pg/mL	D-lactate mmol/L
38	M	Black	Reno-vascular	Yes	No	12	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	99,178	1646	7	89	2.3	1.7	0.2
63	M	Black	Glomer-ulopathy	Yes	No	36	No	Yes	Yes	No	297,402	5540	9	243	0.5	1.8	<0.1
62	M	Asian	FSGS	No	No	10	No	Yes	Yes	No	349,171	2883	0	353	19	8.0	0.4
73	M	Black	Reno-vascular	Yes	No	24	No	No	Yes	No	145,251	17,381	61	360	3.1	3.4	<0.1
66	F	Cauc	Hyper-oxaluria	No	No	112	No	No	Yes	No	1450	0	0	409	2.3	10.1	1.2
40	M	Cauc	Dense deposit disease	No	No	7	No	Yes	Yes	No	692	4928	0	338	<0.3	1.22	<0.1
28	M	Asian	Glomerulo-pathy	No	No	96	No	No	No	No	1,417,213	12,896	118	217	4.2	2.7	<0.1

Note: Characteristics of patients with low (<25th percentile) values of the BCoAT gene.

Abbreviations: M, male; F, female, Ethn, ethnicity; FSGS, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; veg diet, vegetarian diet; CVD, cardiovascular disease; DM, diabetes mellitus; PPI, proton pump inhibitor; P04, phosphate; K, potassium; Cauc, Caucasian.