Liu Yujie, Zhang Sheng, Wu Xia, Li Qianqian, Wang Yun, Huang Yihao, Zhang Faming, Cui Bota, Lu Xiang
Medical Center for Digestive Diseases, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Key Lab of Holistic Integrative Enterology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Digit Health. 2022 Jul 21;8:20552076221115018. doi: 10.1177/20552076221115018. eCollection 2022 Jan-Dec.
Gut microbiota and dysbiosis are closely related to the occurrence and development of various diseases. It is necessary to popularize gut microbiota-related knowledge to the public. And the instant messaging client on smartphones supplies a perfect tool to achieve this goal. Hence, we will describe the current status of gut microbiota education spread by WeChat official accounts.
The keywords of "gut microbiota," "fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)," and "probiotics" were searched in the articles published from January 2015 to August 2020 on the WeChat official accounts. And the data were analyzed based on the 10 common gut dysbiosis-related diseases.
A total of 3061 WeChat official accounts have published 11,239 articles on gut microbiota dysbiosis-related diseases, with a rising trend in the total article numbers and the total pageviews. The keywords of "gut microbiota" dominate 50.61%, and the articles on inflammatory bowel disease had the largest proportion. Additionally, articles on the keyword "gut microbiota" also included cancer and obesity, articles on the keyword "FMT" mainly consist of infection and psychological disease, and the keyword "probiotics" was mainly related to obesity and irritable bowel syndrome disease. The top three total pageviews were on inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, and cancer.
This study indicates the current research hotspots and public concerns on the gut microbiota, and WeChat as an instant messaging client plays an important role in promoting the scientific popularization of gut microbiota.
肠道微生物群及失调与多种疾病的发生和发展密切相关。有必要向公众普及肠道微生物群相关知识。而智能手机上的即时通讯客户端提供了实现这一目标的完美工具。因此，我们将描述微信公众号传播肠道微生物群知识的现状。
在2015年1月至2020年8月期间微信公众号发表的文章中搜索“肠道微生物群”“粪便微生物群移植（FMT）”和“益生菌”等关键词。并基于10种常见的肠道失调相关疾病对数据进行分析。
共有3061个微信公众号发表了11239篇关于肠道微生物群失调相关疾病的文章，文章总数和总浏览量呈上升趋势。“肠道微生物群”关键词占比50.61%，其中关于炎症性肠病的文章比例最大。此外，关于“肠道微生物群”关键词的文章还包括癌症和肥胖，关于“FMT”关键词的文章主要涉及感染和心理疾病，“益生菌”关键词主要与肥胖和肠易激综合征疾病相关。总浏览量排名前三的是炎症性肠病、肥胖和癌症。
本研究表明了当前肠道微生物群的研究热点和公众关注的问题，微信作为即时通讯客户端在促进肠道微生物群科学普及方面发挥了重要作用。
