%0 Journal Article
%A Arenas-Montes, Javier
%A Perez-Martinez, Pablo
%A Vals-Delgado, Cristina
%A Romero-Cabrera, Juan Luis
%A Cardelo, Magdalena P
%A Leon-Acuña, Ana
%A Quintana-Navarro, Gracia M
%A Alcala-Diaz, Juan F
%A Lopez-Miranda, Jose
%A Camargo, Antonio
%A Perez-Jimenez, Francisco
%T Owning a Pet Is Associated with Changes in the Composition of Gut Microbiota and Could Influence the Risk of Metabolic Disorders in Humans.
%D 2021
%@ 2076-2615
%U https://hdl.handle.net/10668/28295
%X 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
%K cardiometabolic diseases
%K dog
%K dysbiosis
%K gut microbiota
%K pet
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