A systems biology approach to understand gut microbiota and host metabolism in morbid obesity: design of the BARIA Longitudinal Cohort Study.
C C Van OldenArnold W van de LaarAbraham S MeijnikmanO AydinN Van OlstJ B HoozemansL M De BrauwS C BruinY I Z AchermanJ VerheijJ E PyykköM HagedoornR SandermanN C BosmaV TremaroliA LundqvistL E OlofssonH HerremaD LappaS HjorthJ NielsenT SchwartzA K GroenM NieuwdorpF BäckhedV E A GerdesPublished in: Journal of internal medicine (2020)
The BARIA study can add more understanding in how gut-microbiota affect metabolism, especially with regard to obesity, glucose metabolism and NAFLD. Identification of key factors may provide diagnostic and therapeutic leads to control the obesity-associated disease epidemic.