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Table 3 Analysis of Alpha and Beta diversity in patients

From: Modifications of lung microbiota structure in traumatic brain injury ventilated patients according to time and enteral feeding formulas: a prospective randomized study

 

Alpha—diversity (Kruskal–Wallis)

P value

Beta—diversity (Permanova)

P value

Observed_features

Shannon_entropy

Bray_Curtis

Weighted_Unifrac

Unweighted_Unifrac

Gender

0.136

0.114

0.176

0.209

0.008

Age

0.432

0.818

0.477

0.868

0.132

BMI

0.760

0.749

0.568

0.574

0.701

Smoking

0.827

0.965

0.987

0.872

0.933

Marshall score

0.765

0.266

0.939

0.635

0.555

Nutrition

1.000

0.579

0.178

0.319

0.177

  1. P-values obtained from alpha and beta diversity analysis carried out on BAL samples collected from patients at T0