Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Comparison of Gut Microbiota between Sasang Constitutions

Table 1

Characteristics of subjects in each constitution.


Characteristics	So-Yang (SY)	So-Eum (SE)	Tae-Eum (TE)	value^a	Comparison significance^b

Sex (M/F)	1/12	9/4	8/6	0.0036
Age (year)				0.0356	SY≠SE
Systolic (mmHg)				0.5670
Diastolic (mmHg)				0.9201
Heart rate				0.1849
Height (cm)				<0.0001	TE≠SY, SE≠SY
Weight (kg)				<0.0001	TE≠SE, TE≠SY
BMI (kg/m²)				<0.0001	TE≠SE, TE≠SY
Waist circumference (mm)				0.0002	TE≠SE, TE≠SY
Waist-hip ratio				0.0338	TE≠SE, SY≠SE
Lean body mass (kg)				0.0004	TE≠SY, SE≠SY
Fat mass (kg)				<0.0001	SY≠SE≠TE
Fat percentage				<0.001	SY≠SE, TE≠SE
Fasting blood sugar (mg/dL)				0.7171
Triglyceride (mg/dL)				0.6895
HDL-cholesterol (mg/dL)				0.3499
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)				0.2003

Values derived from ANOVA test, except for the variable “Sex” which was from the chi-square test.
^bResults obtained from posthoc analysis Tukey’s HSD test.