Specific gut microbiota features and metabolic markers in postmenopausal women with obesity

Lena Kirchner Brahe; E Le Chatelier; E Prifti; N Pons; S Kennedy; Torben Hansen; Oluf Borbye Pedersen; Arne Astrup; S D Ehrlich; Lesli Hingstrup Larsen

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Specific gut microbiota features and metabolic markers in postmenopausal women with obesity

Lena Kirchner Brahe, E Le Chatelier, E Prifti, N Pons, S Kennedy, Torben Hansen, Oluf Borbye Pedersen, Arne Astrup, S D Ehrlich, Lesli Hingstrup Larsen

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Background: Gut microbial gene richness and specific bacterial species are associated with metabolic risk markers in humans, but the impact of host physiology and dietary habits on the link between the gut microbiota and metabolic markers remain unclear. The objective of this study was to identify gut metagenomic markers associated with estimates of insulin resistance, lipid metabolism and inflammation in obesity, and to explore whether the associations between metagenomic and metabolic markers persisted after adjustment for body fat, age and habitual dietary intake. Methods: Faecal DNA from 53 women with obesity was analysed through quantitative metagenomic sequencing and analysis, and a systematic search was performed for bacterial genes associated with estimates of insulin resistance, inflammation and lipid metabolism. Subsequently, the correlations between metagenomic species and metabolic markers were tested by linear regression models, with and without covariate adjustment. Results: One hundred and fourteen metagenomic species correlated with metabolic markers (P<0.001) including Akkermansia muciniphila, Bilophila wadsworthia, Bifidobacterium longum and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, but also species not previously associated with metabolic markers including Bacteroides faecis and Dorea longicatena. The majority of the identified correlations between bacterial species and metabolic markers persisted after adjustment for differences in body fat, age and dietary macronutrient composition; however, the negative correlation with insulin resistance observed for B. longum and F. prausnitzii appeared to be modified by the intake of dietary fibre and fat, respectively. Conclusions: This study shows that several gut bacterial species are linked to metabolic risk markers in obesity, also after adjustment for potential confounders, such as long-term diet composition. The study supports the use of gut metagenomic markers for metabolic disease prediction and warrants further investigation of causality.

Original language	English
Article number	e159
Journal	Nutrition and Diabetes
Volume	5
Number of pages	7
ISSN	2044-4052
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nutd.2015.9
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2015

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Specific gut microbiota features and metabolic markers in postmenopausal women with obesity

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