Variations of Tongue Coating Microbiota in Patients with Gastric Cancer

Table 3

Tongue coating thickness and the alpha diversity of three groups.

	OTU (mean ± SD),	ACE (mean ± SD)	Chao (mean ± SD)	Shannon (mean ± SD)
Normal controls	153.31 ± 30.36	205.39 ± 37.88	198.05 ± 34.97	3.06 ± 0.26
Thin tongue coating group
Thick tongue coating group
	0.001	0.019	0.003	0.05

values were based on ANOVA.
compared with the control group, compared with the control group and the thin tongue coating group (based on SNK).