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Gut microbiota is analyzed at baseline and after 3 years of dietary intervention.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>Higher abundance of <jats:italic>Collinsella</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Alistipes</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Anaerotruncus</jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Phascolarctobacterium</jats:italic> genera is observed in MetS‐W than in MetS‐M, whereas the abundance of <jats:italic>Faecalibacterium</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Prevotella</jats:italic> genera is higher in MetS‐M than in MetS‐W. 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