Lactobacillus amylovorus and Association with Sarcopenia

• Oropharyngeal microbiome alterations in sarcopenia: a nested case-control study in older adults.

  • 2025-09-17
  • Observational · n = 120
  • The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 80(12)
  • • Runjie Li
    • Wenhua Jiang
    • Huiyu Tang
    • Shuyue Luo
    • Xiaoyan Chen
    • Qian Chen
    • Ming Yang

  • PubMed: 40973066
  • DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glaf201

  1 Insight on

  • Association with Sarcopenia

  • High evidence

  Sarcopenia was associated with an NP/OP microbial profile suggesting increased pro-inflammatory potential: enrichment of Moraxella (NP, linear discriminant analysis [LDA] > 2) and Haemophilus, Lactobacillus amylovorus, Listeriaceae (OP, LDA > 2)

  Effect

  Harmful

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes