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Professional dialysis recruitment| Gut bacteria may protect against atherosclerosis by making carotenoids. |
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| EurekAlert: The researchers compared a group of stroke patients with a group of healthy subjects and found major differences in their gut microbiota. In particular, they showed that genes required for the production of carotenoids were more frequently found in gut microbiota from healthy subjects. The healthy subjects also had significantly higher levels of a certain carotenoid in the blood than the stroke survivors. |
