Owning a Pet Is Associated with Changes in the Composition of Gut Microbiota and Could Influence the Risk of Metabolic Disorders in Humans.
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2021-08-09
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Arenas-Montes, Javier
Perez-Martinez, Pablo
Vals-Delgado, Cristina
Romero-Cabrera, Juan Luis
Cardelo, Magdalena P
Leon-Acuña, Ana
Quintana-Navarro, Gracia M
Alcala-Diaz, Juan F
Lopez-Miranda, Jose
Camargo, Antonio
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Pet ownership positively influences clinical outcomes in cardiovascular prevention. Additionally, cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been previously linked to microbiota dysbiosis. We evaluated the influence of owning a pet and its relationship with the intestinal microbiota. We analyzed the gut microbiota from 162 coronary patients from the CORDIOPREV study (NCT00924937) according to whether they owned pets (n = 83) or not (n = 79). The pet-owner group was further divided according to whether they owned dogs only (n = 28) or not (n = 55). A 7-item pet-owners test score was used. Patients who owned pets had less risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS) (OR = 0.462) and obesity (OR = 0.519) and were younger (p
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cardiometabolic diseases, dog, dysbiosis, gut microbiota, pet