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Review
. 2014:2014:901308.
doi: 10.1155/2014/901308. Epub 2014 Jun 4.

Gut microbioma population: an indicator really sensible to any change in age, diet, metabolic syndrome, and life-style

Noce Annalisa  1 , Tarantino Alessio  1 , Tsague Djoutsop Claudette  1 , Vasili Erald  2 , De Lorenzo Antonino  3 , Di Daniele Nicola  1
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Review

Gut microbioma population: an indicator really sensible to any change in age, diet, metabolic syndrome, and life-style

Noce Annalisa et al. Mediators Inflamm. 2014.

Abstract

Obesity has become a pandemic threat in the latest 30 years. The trend of the prevalence of overweight and obesity has got an overall increase in every part of the world, regardless of ethnicity, life-style and social ties. High food intake, genetic, and sedentary have been related to obesity; it has been also hypothesized that gut microbiota could have an impact on the complex mechanism underlying the weight gain. This review aims to illustrate the actual literature about gut microbiota and its relation with obesity and to analyze the possible implications of factors such as diet and life-style onto the composition of gut microbiota, that can lead to overweight/obesity condition.

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Figure 1
Worldwide Overall percentage of obesity prevalence (2008). Data source: WHO [1].
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Figure 2
Prevalence's trend of overweight and obesity in USA population (1980–2008) [1].
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Figure 3
Trend of overweight and obesity in Italian population (1983–2010) [10, 11].
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