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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Thorax. 2020 Dec 14;76(3):256–263. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215542

Table 2.

Abundance of taxa associated (FDR <0.10) with risk of lung cancer in two prospective cohorts of never-smokers*

Medium vs low abundance High vs low abundance
95% CI 95% CI
Taxa OR Lower Upper P value OR Lower Upper P value Ptrend FDR
Spirochaetes (p), Spirochaetia (c) 0.61 0.32 1.18 0.14 0.42 0.21 0.85 0.02 0.01 0.08
Bacteroidetes (p), Bacteroidetes (c) 0.66 0.35 1.25 0.21 0.31 0.15 0.64 0.002 0.002 0.03
Bacteroidetes (p), Bacteroidetes (c), Bacteroidetes (o) 0.66 0.35 1.25 0.21 0.31 0.15 0.64 0.002 0.002 0.02
Bacteroidetes (p), Bacteroidetes (c), Bacteroidetes (o), Bacteroidetes (f) 0.66 0.35 1.25 0.21 0.31 0.15 0.64 0.002 0.002 0.06
Firmicutes (p), Bacilli (c) 1.49 0.73 3.08 0.28 2.40 1.18 4.87 0.02 0.01 0.08
Firmicutes (p), Bacilli (c), Lactobacillales (o) 2.15 1.03 4.47 0.04 3.26 1.58 6.70 0.001 0.002 0.02
*

Adjusted for sex, age, sample collection time, menopause status (for women), education and antibiotic use.

Indicated by phylogenetic tree attributes (p=phylum; c=class; o=order; f=family).

FDR, false discovery rate.