Research Article

The Correlation between Gut Microbiota and Serum Metabolomic in Elderly Patients with Chronic Heart Failure

Table 1

Clinical parameters of subjects.

CHF ()Healthy () value

Age (years)0.941
Gender (male/female)14/1113/12
BMI (kg/m2)0.768
Smoking0.733
 Never1012
 Past1110
 Current43
CRP (mg/L)0.006
NT-proBNP (pg/mL)<0.001
NYHA class
 I2
 II5
 III7
 IV11

CHF: chronic heart failure; BMI: body mass index; NYHA: New York Heart Association; CRP: cAMP receptor protein; NT-proBNP: N-terminal pro-B type natriuretic peptide. The unpaired test was used between the two groups conforming to the normal distribution. value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.