Table 2.

α-diversity of supragingival microbiota in the MAFLD and Control groups.

	MAFLD	Health	P
Ace	318.96 ± 76.36	285.74 ± 82.16	0.1561
Chao 1	324.99 ± 81.69	287.67 ± 77.17	0.0969
Shannon	4.02 ± 0.27	3.80 ± 0.39	0.0303*
Simpson	0.04 ± 0.01	0.05 ± 0.02	0.0192*
Coverage	0.9983 ± 0.0006	0.9987 ± 0.0006	0.1319

Results are presented as the mean ± standard deviation. *P < 0.05. All α-diversity estimators were analyzed using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test.