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Associations of eating habits and the saliva microbiota in Finnish adolescents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2020

Jannina Viljakainen
Affiliation:
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Sajan C. Raju
Affiliation:
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Rejane Augusta de Oliveira Figueiredo
Affiliation:
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Heli Viljakainen
Affiliation:
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Eva Roos
Affiliation:
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Elisabete Weiderpass
Affiliation:
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
Trine B. Rounge
Affiliation:
Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway
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The composition of diet plays a vital role in maintaining health and may alter the human microbiota. The main focus to date has been on the association between diet and gut microbiota and only few studies have investigated the correlation between diet and the saliva microbiota. Our aim was to investigate whether eating habits and meal patterns are associated with the saliva microbiota. In this study, we included 842 adolescents aged 11–14 years from the Finnish Health in Teens (Fin-HIT) study cohort. Adolescents answered a web-based questionnaire, including information on eating habits, breakfast and dinner patterns at school. Questions related to diet were adapted to the age group. Previously three major eating habits were identified: healthy, unhealthy and fruit and vegetable avoiders. Saliva microbiota profiles were produced by 16S (V3-V4) sequencing on the Illumina HiSeq platform. We found that the regular breakfast eaters had a higher diversity than the irregular breakfast eaters (Shannon index mean 2.27 vs. 2.21, ANCOVA; p-value = 0.026 and inverse Simpsońs index mean 6.21 vs. 5.70, ANCOVA; p-value = 0.004 adjusted for gender, age, language, body mass index (BMI) categories, and sequencing depth). No associations were found between microbiota and eating habit groups, and between microbiota and dinner pattern groups. Microbial composition differed between the regular breakfast and irregular breakfast eaters (Bray-Curtis dissimilarity index, PERMANOVA; p = 0.021), but not between eating habit groups or dinner pattern groups. A high abundance of Prevotella was identified in the fruit and vegetable avoideŕs, irregular breakfast and irregular dinner eaters. Our results indicate that having an irregular breakfast may shape the saliva microbiota diversity. Prevotella may be an indicator of avoiding veggies and skipping meals.

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