Associations of plasma trimethylamine N-oxide, choline, carnitine, and betaine with inflammatory and cardiometabolic risk biomarkers and the fecal microbiome in the Multiethnic Cohort Adiposity Phenotype Study.

CONCLUSIONS: Plasma TMAO concentrations were associated with a number of trimethylamine-producing bacterial taxa, and, along with its precursors, may contribute to inflammatory and cardiometabolic risk pathways.
PMID: 32055828 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition - February 12, 2020 Category: Nutrition Authors: Fu BC, Hullar MAJ, Randolph TW, Franke AA, Monroe KR, Cheng I, Wilkens LR, Shepherd JA, Madeleine MM, Le Marchand L, Lim U, Lampe JW Tags: Am J Clin Nutr Source Type: research