Study examines the connection between human gut microbiota and health, mortality – News-Medical.net

The study conducted by the University of Turku and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare together with an international research team is so far the largest population-level study in the world examining the connection between human gut microbiota and health and mortality in the following decades.
The composition of the research subjects’ gut microbiota was analyzed from stool samples collected in 2002. The researchers had access to follow-up data on the subjects’ mortality until 2017, i.e.,…

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