Table 3.

Abundance results from between (^#) and within (*) group comparisons of 8 targeted bacterium.

	Control group	Oat group	p-value#
Bifidobacterium (%)
Baseline (Day 0)	0.29 (0.03, 1.08)	0.21 (0.03, 1.08)	0.52
Day 45	0.26 (0.03, 2.16)	0.42 (0.09,1.14)	0.62
p *	0.70	0.51
Lactobacillus (%)
Baseline (Day 0)	5.37 × 10−4 (1.06 × 10−4, 7.84 × 10−3)	3.80 × 10−4 (3.99 × 10−5, 3.70 × 10−3)	0.43
Day 45	2.49 × 10−4 (2.20 × 10−5, 1.30 × 10−3)	1.90 × 10−4 (3.5 × 10−6, 4.62 × 10−3)	0.84
p *	0.15	0.56
Akkermancia muciniphila (%)
Baseline (Day 0)	2.04 × 10−3 (2.1 × 10−6, 3.28 × 10−1)	1.74 × 10−3 (0, 2.03 × 10−1)	0.85
Day 45	7.09 × 10−5 (0, 4.93 × 10−2)	2.84 × 10−3 (1.34 × 10−5, 1.47 × 10−1)	0.06
p *	0.09	0.04
Roseburia (%)
Baseline (Day 0)	10.71 (3.83, 20.24) n=36)	2.05 (0.58, 11.34)	0.001
Day 45	8.07 (2.96, 20.95) n=31)	5.87 (2.70, 22.49)	0.73
p *	0.51	0.02
Bacteroidaceae (%)
Baseline (Day 0)	1.05 (0.42, 2.84)	0.85 (0.16, 2.37)	0.37
Day 45	1.02 (0.34, 3.83)	0.90 (0.28, 2.44)	0.67
p *	0.87	0.84
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii (%)
Baseline (Day 0)	0.67 (0.09, 1.49)	0.40 (0.04, 1.74)	0.49
Day 45	0.19 (0.04, 2.53)	0.83 (0.08, 4.16)	0.43
p *	0.79	0.32
Enterobacteriaceae (%)
Baseline (Day 0)	5.18 × 10−3 (2.82 × 10−4, 1.20 × 10−1)	4.53 × 10−3 (5.96 × 10−4, 6.96 × 10−2)	0.85
Day 45	3.10 × 10−3 (1.22 × 10−4, 2.84 × 10−2)	4.35 × 10−3 (1.74 × 10−4, 2.39 × 10−2)	0.84
p *	0.32	0.42
Clostridium perfringens (samples from Shanghai were not be detected) (%)
Baseline (Day 0)	1.28 × 10−4 (7.3 × 10−6, 9.36 × 10−4)	3.00 × 10−4 (1.16 × 10−5, 6.07 × 10−3)	0.46
Day 45	3.49 × 10−3 (9.3 × 10−6, 9.52 × 10−2)	5.56 × 10−4 (1.33 × 10−5, 3.00 × 10−2)	0.61
p *	0.14	0.61

Data were presented as median (P25, P75). Nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test was used for comparisons between and within groups.