Arenas-Montes, JavierPerez-Martinez, PabloVals-Delgado, CristinaRomero-Cabrera, Juan LuisCardelo, Magdalena PLeon-Acuña, AnaQuintana-Navarro, Gracia MAlcala-Diaz, Juan FLopez-Miranda, JoseCamargo, AntonioPerez-Jimenez, Francisco2025-01-072025-01-072021-08-092076-2615https://hdl.handle.net/10668/28295Pet 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 (penAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/cardiometabolic diseasesdogdysbiosisgut microbiotapetresearch article34438804open access10.3390/ani11082347PMC8388619https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/8/2347/pdf?version=1628666090https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8388619/pdf