mSystems (Jun 2021)

Intermittent Hypoxia and Hypercapnia Alter Diurnal Rhythms of Luminal Gut Microbiome and Metabolome

  • Celeste Allaband,
  • Amulya Lingaraju,
  • Cameron Martino,
  • Baylee Russell,
  • Anupriya Tripathi,
  • Orit Poulsen,
  • Ana Carolina Dantas Machado,
  • Dan Zhou,
  • Jin Xue,
  • Emmanuel Elijah,
  • Atul Malhotra,
  • Pieter C. Dorrestein,
  • Rob Knight,
  • Gabriel G. Haddad,
  • Amir Zarrinpar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00116-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 3

Abstract

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People with obstructive sleep apnea, identified by loud snoring and breathing irregularly while sleeping, are at a higher risk of high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, cardiac arrhythmias, stroke, and sudden cardiac death. We wanted to understand whether the gut microbiome changes induced by obstructive sleep apnea could potentially explain some of these medical problems.