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Estudio transversal sobre variaciones étnicas en la diversidad del microbioma intestinal y la gravedad de la

Rajput Nixitsinh Arvindssinh¹, Tanvi Ghanshyambhai Patel², M R Madan Karthik Raj³

¹Department of Physiology, Junior Resident at GMERS Gotri Medical College and Hospital, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.

|December 30, 2025

Resumen

Las diferencias étnicas en las bacterias intestinales afectan la gravedad de la hipertensión. Una mayor diversidad microbiana se correlacionó con una menor presión arterial en grupos étnicos específicos, lo que sugiere intervenciones personalizadas del microbioma para el manejo de la hipertensión.

Área de la Ciencia:

Microbiología
Fisiología Humana
Genética

Sus antecedentes:

La hipertensión es un problema de salud global con factores contribuyentes complejos.
Se reconoce cada vez más el papel del microbioma intestinal en las enfermedades metabólicas, incluida la hipertensión.
Las variaciones étnicas en la prevalencia de enfermedades sugieren diferencias biológicas subyacentes, que podrían incluir la composición del microbioma.

Objetivo del estudio:

Investigar las variaciones étnicas en la diversidad del microbioma intestinal.
Evaluar la asociación entre la composición del microbioma intestinal y la gravedad de la hipertensión en diferentes etnias.
Explorar posibles patrones de microbioma específicos de cada etnia que influyan en los resultados de la hipertensión.

Principales métodos:

Análisis de muestras de heces de 130 adultos de tres grupos étnicos utilizando secuenciación 16S rRNA.
Clasificación de las mediciones de la presión arterial según las directrices de la American Heart Association (AHA).
Análisis estadístico para identificar correlaciones entre la diversidad microbiana, las proporciones de Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes y la gravedad de la hipertensión.

Principales resultados:

Se observaron variaciones étnicas significativas en la composición microbiana intestinal.
La relación Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes difirió notablemente entre los grupos étnicos.
Una mayor diversidad microbiana intestinal se asoció con una menor gravedad de la hipertensión en ciertas poblaciones étnicas.
Estos hallazgos resaltan perfiles de microbioma intestinal específicos de cada etnia.

Conclusiones:

La composición del microbioma intestinal presenta patrones étnicos significativos.
La diversidad y composición microbiana pueden desempeñar un papel en la modulación de la gravedad de la hipertensión de manera dependiente de la etnia.
Estas ideas podrían informar el desarrollo de estrategias específicas y dirigidas a cada etnia para el manejo de la hipertensión a través de la modulación del microbioma.

Palabras clave:

secuenciación 16S rRNA microbioma intestinal variaciones étnicas hipertensión diversidad microbiana

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