The Effects of Bowel Preparation on Microbiota-Related Metrics Differ in Health and in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and for the Mucosal and Luminal Microbiota Compartments.

Clin Transl Gastroenterol · 2016 · PMC4817412 · PMID 26866392

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When IBD and HC biopsy samples were separately examined for the effect of BP, the PD-WT metric was significantly lower after BP in the biopsy samples of HC subjects ( P =0.021, related-samples sign test), and there was a significant trend for the biopsy samples of IBD subjects ( P =0.07, related-samples sign test).

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

There was a trend for reduction in α-diversity after BP (in comparisons-across-bowel-prep); however, the effects were variable in individual patients and did not reach statistical significance for most metrics.

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