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SUBMITTER: Rampelli S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6286349 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rampelli Simone S Guenther Kathrin K Turroni Silvia S Wolters Maike M Veidebaum Toomas T Kourides Yiannis Y Molnár Dénes D Lissner Lauren L Benitez-Paez Alfonso A Sanz Yolanda Y Fraterman Arno A Michels Nathalie N Brigidi Patrizia P Candela Marco M Ahrens Wolfgang W
Communications biology 20181207
It is widely accepted that the intestinal microbiome is connected to obesity, as key mediator of the diet impact on the host metabolic and immunological status. To investigate whether the individual gut microbiome has a potential in predicting the onset and progression of diseases, here we characterized the faecal microbiota of 70 children in a two-time point prospective study, within a four-year window. All children had normal weight at the beginning of this study, but 36 of them gained excessi ...[more]