Oatmeal induced gut microbiota alteration and its relationship with improved lipid profiles: a secondary analysis of a r
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Oatmeal induced gut microbiota alteration and its relationship with improved lipid profiles: a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial Mengyao Ye1, Jianqin Sun1* , Yanqiu Chen1, Qian Ren1, Zhen Li1, Yanfang Zhao1, Yiru Pan2 and Huijun Xue2
Abstract Background: In vitro and animal experiments reported a microbiota-regulating ability of oatmeal, however, related in vivo evidences remained limited. Thus, we conducted this study aiming to investigate the oatmeal-induced alteration of gut microbiota and its potential relationship with the improvements of lipid profiles. Methods and study design: Data of anthropometric measurements and biochemical parameters were extracted from a randomized, controlled clinical trial, in which 62 hypercholesterolemic men and women (18–65 years old) were provided with either treatment of 80 g/day oatmeal or 80 g/day refined white rice for 45 days. Fasting blood samples and fecal samples were collected both at baseline and endpoint of the study for lipid profiling and microbiota 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, respectively. Results: Totally 28 participants (56 fecal samples) qualified with the new criteria and were thus included in this secondary analysis. The results of microbiota analysis showed that no significant difference was observed in the alteration of its overall α or β diversity between two groups throughout the study. Nor did any notable between-group difference was found in the relative abundance changes of microorganism at different taxonomies. However, results from linear discriminant analysis effect size in the oatmeal group indicated a significant positive response of Firmicutes phylum following oatmeal consumption. Further Procrustes analysis suggested a concordance trend between microorganism alteration and alleviation of hypercholesterolemia phenotypes throughout the study (P = 0.05). The results of within-group comparison from Spearman’s correlation in the oatmeal group demonstrated a significant association between the enrichment of Blautia genus and the reduction of serum total cholesterol (P
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