Oral microbiome and obesity in a large study of low-income and African-American populations

Few studies have evaluated the relationship of oral microbiome with obesity. We investigated the oral microbiome among 647 obese and 969 non-obese individuals from the Southern Community Cohort Study, through 16S rRNA gene sequencing in mouth rinse samples. We first investigated 16 taxa in two probi...

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Main Authors: Yaohua Yang, Qiuyin Cai, Wei Zheng, Mark Steinwandel, William J. Blot, Xiao-Ou Shu, Jirong Long
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of Oral Microbiology
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20002297.2019.1650597