Association of Tongue Bacterial Flora and Subtypes of Liver-Fire Hyperactivity Syndrome in Hypertensive Patients

Table 3

Species with significant differences in abundance in EH-non-LYHS, EH-non-LYHS, and control group, as assessed by Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA).

LDA score (log 10)	Liver-fire hyperactivity group	Non-liver-fire hyperactivity group	Healthy control group
8 < score ⩽ 10		Bacteroidia>Prevotella> Actinomycetaceae>  Actinomyces	Selenomonadales>Negativicutes>Veillonella
6 < score ⩽ 8	Streptosporangiaceae>   Achromobacter>; Nocardioidaceae>; unidentified>; Methylophilales>; Methylophilaceae>; Methylophilus>; unidentified>; Ilumatobacter>; Acidimicrobiaceae>; cteroidetes_incertae_sedis> Ohtaekwangia	Coriobacteriales> Coriobacteriaceae>; Atopobium>; Lachnospiraceae>; SRl_genera_incertae_sedis; >SRl>unidentified>; unidentified>unidentified>; Mogibacterium>; ridiales_lncertae_Sedis_XI 11>; Actinomycetales	Veillonellaceae>Megasphaera>Gammaproteobacteria>Phyllobacteriaceae> Actinobacteria>Sphingobacterium>Myxococcales>Rhodobacterales>; Parapedobacter>Micromonosporaceae>; Stenotrophomonas>Pseudomonadales>; Faecalibacterium>Rhodospirillales>; Acinetobacter>Bacillaceae_1>Bacillus>; Pseudomonas>Cyanobacteria_Chloroplast>; unidentified>Acidobacteria_Gp6>Gp6>; unidentified>unidentified>Streptophyta>; Chloroplast>Chloroplast>Sphingobacteriia>; Xanthomonadales>Chitinophagaceae
4 < score ⩽ 6		Firmicutes>Lactobacillales>  Treponema>Spirochaetia; >Spirochaetes>; Spirochaetaceae>; Spirochaetales	Enterobacteriales>Enterobacteriaceae

Note. LDA score represents the magnitude of the effect in species with significant differences in abundance.