Table 2.

The influence of demographic and clinical characteristics of the FA group on the microbiota

Parameter	Threshold	β diversity (weighted UniFrac)		α diversity (Faith’s PD)
		q value	R2	q value
Age (years)	<, > 13	0.37	0.006	0.19
Gender	F, M	0.29	0	0.26
Asthma	Yes, No	0.62	0	0.28
Eosinophils (median levels)	<, > 600	0.95	0	0.68
Eosinophils (extreme levels)	< 300, > 900	0.94	0.001	0.94
Adrenaline use	Yes, No	0.44	0	0.69