TABLE 5.

Inflammatory factors and abundance of anti-inflammatory bacteria and pro-inflammatory bacteria in each group.

		AD group	Normal group	P-value
Inflammatory factors	TNF-α (ug/ml)	11.46 ± 4.25	8.24 ± 3.38	0.004*
	IL-1 β (ug/ml)	11.37 ± 2.60	11.01 ± 2.35	1.000
	IL-6 (pg/ml)	7.81 ± 3.42	5.05 ± 1.93	0.001*
	IL-8 (ug/ml)	15.98 ± 4.38	13.42 ± 4.36	0.072
Abundance of bacteria	Ruminococcus	0.027 ± 0.015	0.042 ± 0.016	0.000*
	Lactobacillus	0.072 ± 0.026	0.111 ± 0.018	0.000*
	Bifidobacterium	0.002 ± 0.001	0.003 ± 0.002	0.000*
	Enterococcus	0.030 ± 0.011	0.019 ± 0.010	0.000*
	Escherichia	0.094 ± 0.203	0.013 ± 0.005	0.025*
	Klebsiella	0.020 ± 0.008	0.017 ± 0.008	0.551

*Means that the difference is considered statistically significant (P < 0.05).