From: The impact of urine microbiota in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms
BPH (n = 77) | Control (n = 30) | P value | |
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Demographic | |||
Age | 69.44 ± 8.23 | 61.97 ± 8.32 | < 0.001a |
Body mass index | 24.17 ± 3.33 | 24.55 ± 2.87 | 0.616 |
Clinical Characteristics | |||
Fasting blood glucose | 110.89 ± 17.05 | 114.48 ± 26.77 | 0.436 |
Prostate specific antigen (PSA) | 3.02 ± 3.21 | 2.37 ± 3.94 | 0.406 |
Free PSA | 0.60 ± 0.11 | 0.69 ± 1.25 | 0.613 |
Hemoglobin A1c (%) | 5.81 ± 0.67 | 5.88 ± 0.53 | 0.660 |
Creatinine | 0.98 ± 0.22 | 0.93 ± 0.18 | 0.393 |
BUN | 15.44 ± 4.94 | 13.22 ± 2.93 | 0.036 |
HDL | 53.93 ± 24.43 | 47.91 ± 11.76 | 0.239 |
Cholesterol | 181.51 ± 42.61 | 182.28 ± 28.15 | 0.933 |
LDL | 110.61 ± 33.82 | 116.75 ± 26.46 | 0.409 |
Testosterone | 551.68 ± 246.50 | 540.75 ± 158.96 | 0.836 |
GOT | 25.96 ± 7.63 | 26.50 ± 7.79 | 0.804 |
GPT | 26.133 ± 12.86 | 30.56 ± 20.82 | 0.210 |
TG | 108.68 ± 66.63 | 102.52 ± 44.11 | 0.667 |
IPSS | 6.25 ± 4.19 | 2.16 ± 1.37 | < 0.001a |
Quality of life scores | 2.09 ± 0.68 | 1.2 ± 0.41 | < 0.001a |
Parameter of Bacterial Alpha Diversity | |||
Observed species | 256.17 ± 65.29 | 254.70 ± 51.58 | 0.912 |
Chao1 | 284.40 ± 65.63 | 288.21 ± 63.05 | 0.786 |
ACE index | 277.65 ± 64.78 | 280.21 ± 57.85 | 0.850 |
Shannon index | 5.81 ± 1.04 | 5.59 ± 0.90 | 0.314 |
Simpson index | 0.93 ± 0.08 | 0.92 ± 0.06 | 0.697 |