Table 1 Participant characteristics.

From: Short- and long-read metagenomics of urban and rural South African gut microbiomes reveal a transitional composition and undescribed taxa

Measurement

Bushbuckridge

Soweto

Age

55.5 ± 7.8 (43–72)

54.1 ± 5.9 (43–64)

Body mass index (BMI)a

32.4 ± 8.0 (21.2–59.0)

36.0 ± 9.3 (20.4–58.6)

Systolic blood pressureb

137.0 ± 18.5 (103.5–186.5)

135 ± 22.5 (96.0–193.0)

Diastolic blood pressureb

84.0 ± 12.5 (52.5–119.0)

89.9 ± 14.4 (58.0–119.0)

  1. aOne Bushbuckridge participant’s BMI measurement was excluded as the recorded value was too low to be physiologically possible and deemed to have been recorded in error. We could not validate the correct BMI for this participant and thus have omitted them from the BMI summary statistics.
  2. bA second participant from Bushbuckridge had missing blood pressure measurements and is not included in blood pressure summary statistics.
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