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. 2023 Jan 20;9(1):e13114. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13114

Table 2.

Alpha diversity analysis of IBS-D and normal control groups.


tongue coating samples
observed chao ace shannon simpson PD_whole_tree
IBS-D group 147.40 ± 20.12 184.04 ± 29.12 182.81 ± 25.52 2.93 ± 0.23 0.09 ± 0.03 18.32 ± 3.22
normal control group 186.30 ± 34.56 211.63 ± 36.09 210.39 ± 32.51 3.03 ± 0.25 0.10 ± 0.02 19.19 ± 2.73
P values 0.0013 0.0245 0.0172 0.4270 0.4270 0.5091
Fecal samples
IBS-D group 134.48 ± 42.73 162.45 ± 49.06 158.34 ± 45.94 2.53 ± 0.61 0.19 ± 0.12 17.99 ± 5.16
normal control group 135.40 ± 27.87 153.32 ± 28.24 151.07 ± 29.28 2.46 ± 0.38 0.19 ± 0.08 11.68 ± 2.17
P values 0.89340 0.54658 0.68071 0.69480 0.59866 0.00033