Association between Gut Microbial Diversity and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness.

There is an increasing focus on the effect of the gut microbiome on developing atherosclerosis, but there is still no unified standpoint. We aimed to find associations between intestinal microbiome diversity and a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis, the carotid intima-media thickness (IMT). Recruited from the Hungarian Twin Registry, 108 monozygotic (MZ) twins (mean age 52.