Ageing trajectory of the gut microbiota is associated with metabolic diseases in a chronological age-dependent manner

Affiliations

• ¹ Microbiome Medicine Center, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
• ² Institute of Precision Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
• ³ Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China.
• ⁴ Clinical Research Center, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
• ⁵ Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
• ⁶ Huzhou Central Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Huzhou, Zhejiang, China.
• ⁷ Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
• ⁸ State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
• ⁹ Microbiome Medicine Center, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China yanhe@i.smu.edu.cn.