Airway microbiome composition correlates with lung function and arterial stiffness in an age-dependent manner - Lee, Shuen Yee; Mac Aogáin, Micheál; Fam, Kai Deng; Chia, Kar Ling; Binte Mohamed Ali, Nur A’tikah; Yap, Margaret M. C.; Yap, Eric P. H.; Chotirmall, Sanjay H.; Lim, Chin Leong (PloS one, 2019)
Keywords: Abundance; Adult; Adults; Age; Age Factors; Aged; Aging; Asthma; Biodiversity; Biology and Life Sciences; Chronic illnesses; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Composition; Correlation; Cystic fibrosis; Elderly people; Family; Firmicutes; Firmicutes - genetics; Firmicutes - isolation & purification; Gene sequencing; Genes; Geriatrics; Haemophilus - genetics; Haemophilus - isolation & purification; Healthy Volunteers; Hormone replacement therapy; Humans; Inflammation; Laboratories; Leptotrichia - genetics; Leptotrichia - isolation & purification; Lung - physiology; Lung diseases; Lungs; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Microbiomes; Microbiota; Microorganisms; Middle Aged; Mortality; Older people; Pathogenesis; Pathogens; People and Places; Phenotypes; Physical Sciences; Proteobacteria; Pulse Wave Analysis; Relative abundance; Respiratory function; Respiratory Function Tests; Respiratory tract; Risk factors; RNA; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - metabolism; rRNA 16S; Sputum; Sputum - microbiology; Stiffness; Vascular Stiffness - physiology; Wave velocity; Young Adult; Singapore