There is a difference between men and women in the cause of the belly "swimming ring"

Science and Technology Daily News (Reporter Jiang Yu intern Hong Hengfei correspondent Ke Yanneng) reporter June 24 from Zhejiang University was informed that the school's School of Public Health Professor Zhu Shanguang team in the United States Stanford University Prevention Research Center research team published the latest results in the internationally renowned journal Nature Communications, in-depth explanation of the complex relationship between the intestinal bacterior group and fat distribution between different genders.
understood that existing scientific studies have confirmed the relationship between intestinal bacteria and obesity, but the relationship between gut bacteria and fat distribution and their differences between different sexes is not clear. The intestinal bacteria are complex and contain more than the rest of the body combined. In previous studies that looked at the relationship between human gut bacteria and obesity, it was found that the relationship between abundance, diversity and fat distribution between male and female intestinal virlocy showed similar characteristics.
chinese and foreign research team, led by Professor Zhu Shanguang, has delve into the taxa level.
, obesity can be roughly divided into two types - 'pear-shaped' and 'apple-shaped', he said. Zhu explains that "apple-shaped" obesity is the accumulation of too much belly fat. Using the large population cohort study method, the researchers selected 222 people as the study object, and divided into 4 groups according to the "pear-shaped" and "apple-shaped" population, and found that the relationship between intestinal bacteria and fat distribution showed obvious gender differences.
In the nearly three-year study, researchers screened 20 tataxas associated with fat distribution from hundreds of high-abundance tata, of which 13 were male and 7 were female, and no significant tataxa-level re-matching was found between men and women. It is worth noting that it comes from the same two genus "Haldeman's" and "Jimmy's bacteria" of different bacteri groups, which have the opposite relationship with fat distribution in men and women. The study showed that in different gender populations, the same genus can lead to different relationships with fat distribution due to differences in the composition of bacteria.
Zhu said the study is very important for the study of chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases associated with abdominal obesity. Studies of these diseases should take into account the gender differences in the gut bacteria.
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