Table 4.

Effect of weight-loss on bacterial diversity and difference in pre-diet diversity between weight-loss groups

	Pre-diet	Post-diet	P-value	High	Medium	Low	P-value
Inverse Simpson	62.02 ± 47.66	27.03 ± 16.91	< 0.01	28.31 ± 13.14	54.10 ± 21.77	103.65 ± 60.32	0.03
Shannon-Weiner	5.46 ± 0.52	4.92 ± 0.54	< 0.01	4.94 ± 0.28	5.55 ± 0.35	5.95 ± 0.29	< 0.01
S.Obs	1717.33 ± 222.51	1576.20 ± 153.13	0.04	1488.93 ± 106.99	1748.27 ± 156.16	1914.80 ± 149.37	< 0.01
S.Chao1	2871.63 ± 401.75	2729.61 ± 324.73	0.37	2619.25 ± 279.27	2986.81 ± 552.08	3008.82 ± 249.78	0.24