Alterations of Microorganisms in Tongue Coating of Gastric Precancerous Lesion Patients with a Damp Phlegm Pattern

Figure 6

KEGG metabolic pathway difference analysis diagram (E: GPL group, N: healthy control group). The left part showed the abundance ratio of different metabolic functions in the two groups of tongue coating microorganisms, the middle figure showed the difference ratio of functional abundance within the 95% confidence interval, and the rightmost value was the value. The abundance ratio of metabolic function “infectious diseases: bacterial” in the GPL group was significantly lower than that in the healthy control group (). The abundance ratio of the metabolic function “excretory system” and “folding, sorting, and degradation” in the GPL group was significantly higher than that in the healthy control group ().