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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 17.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Nutr. 2017 Sep 30;57(8):2759–2769. doi: 10.1007/s00394-017-1542-8

Table 4.

Correlation between cecum concentration of short-chain fatty acids and relative proportion of bacteria in the cecum

Propionic acid
 Iso-butyric acid
 Phylum
Pearson R P value Pearson R P value
Bacteroidetes 0.190 0.374 0.38 0.067 Bacteroidetes
Parabacteroides 0.136 0.525 0.41 0.045 Bacteroidetes
Moryella 0.435 0.034 0.04 0.85 Firmicutes
Oscillibacter 0.566 0.004 0.34 0.101 Firmicutes
Pseudobutyrivibrio 0.556 0.005 0.67 0.0003 Firmicutes

Pearson correlation coefficient and p value were calculated using the Prism GraphPad software