Traditional Chinese and Western multidisciplinary team approach for gut microbiome recovery postintestinal stoma closure

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World J Gastrointest Surg. Mar 27, 2026; 18(3): 115767
Published online Mar 27, 2026. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v18.i3.115767

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of patients in the control and multi-disciplinary team groups, n (%)

Baseline characteristics	Control group (n = 122)	MDT group (n = 129)	P value
Age (years), mean ± SD	55.2 ± 10.1	54.9 ± 9.8	0.723
Gender			0.845
Male	67 (55.0)	68 (52.7)
Female	55 (45.0)	61 (47.3)
BMI (kg/m²), mean ± SD	23.4 ± 3.1	23.6 ± 3.0	0.652
Duration of stoma (months), mean ± SD	8.5 ± 2.6	8.4 ± 2.5	0.876
Type of stoma			0.789
Ileostomy	72 (58.9)	75 (58.1)
Colostomy	50 (41.1)	54 (41.9)
Previous surgery count, mean ± SD	1.2 ± 0.4	1.3 ± 0.5	0.462
Chronic conditions			0.521
DM	17 (13.9)	16 (12.4)
HTN	15 (12.3)	15 (11.6)
Asthma	11 (9.0)	13 (10.1)
CKD	9 (7.4)	8 (6.2)
Heart disease	7 (5.7)	8 (6.2)	0.371
Preoperative Gut Symptom Score, mean ± SD	6.2 ± 1.5	6.3 ± 1.4	0.425
Psychological State Score, mean ± SD	3.1 ± 0.8	3.0 ± 0.7	0.538
Gut microbiome diversity, mean ± SD	3.5 ± 0.6	3.6 ± 0.5
Gut microbiome function, mean ± SD	2.8 ± 0.7	2.9 ± 0.6		0.614

BMI: Body mass index; DM: Diabetes mellitus; HTN: Hypertension; CKD: Chronic kidney disease; MDT: Multi-disciplinary team.

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Citation: Zhou Q, Xu JD. Traditional Chinese and Western multidisciplinary team approach for gut microbiome recovery postintestinal stoma closure. World J Gastrointest Surg 2026; 18(3): 115767
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4240/wjgs.v18.i3.115767

Zhou Q, Xu JD. Traditional Chinese and Western multidisciplinary team approach for gut microbiome recovery postintestinal stoma closure. World J Gastrointest Surg 2026; 18(3): 115767 [DOI: 10.4240/wjgs.v18.i3.115767]

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