Prevalence of Chronic Diseases and Alterations in Gut Microbiome in Ningxia China During Urbanization: An Epidemiological Survey

To investigate the prevalence of chronic diseases during urbanization and the effect of urbanization on intestinal microbiota in residents . We performed a comprehensive study integrating multidimensional dataset of gut microbiota, and host characteristics that were based on clinical and questionnaire-derived data, from a large-scale of epidemiological investigation of 538 mountain rural (MR) participants, 529 mountain urban (MU) participants, 765 plain rural (PR) participants and 675 plain urban (PU) participants.