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Hypertension Shifts Gut Microbiota and Tryptophan Metabolism in Women

2025-02-02 cardiovascular medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundHypertension affects over 1.28 billion adults worldwide, including a significant number of women. Although the gut microbiome is implicated in the onset and progression of hypertension, few studies have examined the relationship in middle-aged women. MethodsWithin an established cohort, we investigated the relationship between gut microbiota and its metabolites in normotensive vs. hypertensive middle-aged women (n=108) matched for age (56.6{+/-}0.91 years) and body mass index (24.3{+/...

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