Relationship between the respiratory microbiome and the severity of airflow limitation, history of exacerbations and circulating eosinophils in COPD patients.

BMC Pulm Med · 2019 · PMC6591812 · PMID 31234826

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borderline significancep = 0.051so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Eosinophils in blood, expressed as percentage, kept a statistically significant relationship with Chao1 in this analysis ( p = 0.026) and a borderline significance for Shannon ( p = 0.051), a finding confirming that the bronchial microbiome was related to blood eosinophils independently of the functional limitations suffered by the patient.

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showed a trendp = 0.072so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

β-diversity analysis showed a trend towards different bacterial communities ( p = 0.072).

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