P056 Exposures linked with urban and rural living indicate that living in rural area but spending above 50% of daily-life in urban environment is linked with reduction in alpha-diversity, reduced rural index, and reduced microbial health index mirroring CD profile
Abstract:Background
Efforts to delineate factors linked with rural to urban transition, paralleling the staggering rise in CD incidence, have been hampered by the universal modernization in the west. China is ongoing transition from a predominantly traditional rural to an urban and industrialized society. We aimed to study the effect of changes and their relationship to CD.
Methods
SOURCE characterized environmental exposures, diet, a… Show more
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