Figure 1
From: The gut microbiome as mediator between diet and its impact on immune function
Dietary patterns derived by polychoric correlation analysis. (A) Factor loadings for the 10 food groups used in the extraction of the most common dietary patterns among all subjects (n = 482). In high-meat pattern, meat consumption has the highest loading (0.754); In prudent diet pattern, the top four loadings were vegetables (0.575), legumes (0.519), fruit (0.220) and fish (0.209); In high-alcohol consumption, daily (0.522) and weekend (0.503) alcohol consumption weighted the highest. Factor loadings were derived by polychoric correlation with varimax rotation. (B) Correlation matrix shows paired correlations of all food items with hierarchical clustering. Red color indicates positive correlations and blue color indicates negative correlations. (C) Boxplots show the differences of scores of three dietary patterns between men and women by Wilcoxon test, ***: P < 0.001.
