| BCAA | branched-chain amino acids |
| CMD | cardiometabolic diseases |
| CRISPR/Cas9 | clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats -associated protein 9 |
| GWAS | genome-wide association studies |
| MVs | microvesicles |
| NO | nitric oxide |
| PI3K/AKT/mTOR | phosphoinositide 3-kinase/protein kinase B/mammalian target of rapamycin |
| TLR | toll-like receptor |
| TMA | trimethylamine |
| TMAO | trimethylamine N-oxide |