Table 1.
Composition of the green tea extract and placebo capsules and total dose consumed per day.
Fig 1.
CONSORT flow diagram.
Table 2.
Subject characteristics at baseline and week 12 in the green tea and placebo groups (n = 58).
Fig 2.
BMI categories: BMI 18–25 kg/m2 (Mdn = 3.78, n = 43) vs. BMI ≥25 kg/m2 (Mdn = 3.52, n = 17).
All Phyla combined, Shannon diversity index using Mann-Whitney test, *p = 0.002.
Fig 3.
Box plots, comparisons of the between-sample diversity in green tea and placebo as calculated by Bray Curtis dissimilarity.
Beta diversity captures the dissimilarity in microbial composition of the groups between baseline and week 12.
Table 3.
Mean bacterial diversity per phylum in the green tea and placebo groups at baseline and week 12.
Fig 4.
Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCoA) plots of Bray Curtis distances between samples, with the %explained variance by the principle coordinates.
PCoA per phylum, Bray Curtis, log2, n = 58.