Table 2.
The correlation among microbiome, lean tissue index, fat tissue index and body mass index in study subjects
| Firmicutes (copies/g) | Bacteroidetes (copies/g) | Phyla F/B ratio | C. leptum group (copies/g) | Bacteroides (copies/g) | Bifidobacterium (copies/g) | A. muciniphila (copies/g) | E. coli (copies/g) | F. prausnitzii (copies/g) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LTI (Kg/m2) | Spearman's rho | 0.213 | -0.077 | 0.239 | 0.018 | -0.068 | 0.084 | -0.118 | 0.052 | -0.038 |
| P value | 0.004 | 0.307 | 0.001 | 0.808 | 0.367 | 0.262 | 0.116 | 0.49 | 0.618 | |
| FTI (Kg/m2) | Spearman's rho | -0.127 | -0.043 | -0.067 | -0.047 | -0.038 | -0.112 | -0.026 | 0.018 | -0.087 |
| P value | 0.09 | 0.568 | 0.373 | 0.535 | 0.616 | 0.137 | 0.727 | 0.809 | 0.246 | |
| BMI (Kg/m2) |
Spearman's rho | -0.021 | -0.075 | 0.042 | -0.028 | -0.085 | -0.08 | -0.063 | 0.063 | -0.123 |
| P value | 0.784 | 0.318 | 0.579 | 0.714 | 0.259 | 0.285 | 0.405 | 0.401 | 0.1 | |
Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; FTI, fat tissue index; LTI, lean tissue index.