Table 3.

The effect of partial animal-based protein replacement in the diet with plant-based protein on anthropometric indices, MetS components, adropin, and atherogenic index of plasma (based on intention to treat analyses, n = 73).

Variables	Plant-based protein diet (n = 37)	Animal-based protein diet (n = 36)	P-valueb	P-valuec	P-valued
Body weight (kg)
Baseline	81.45 ± 13.13	82.33 ± 12.42	0.59	0.62	0.58
10th week	79.86 ± 13.06	80.43 ± 12.20
Mean difference	−1.59 ± 2.24	−1.91 ± 2.70
P-valuea	<0.001	<0.001
BMI (kg/m2)
Baseline	29.23 ± 4.12	29.23 ± 3.41	0.42	0.43	0.42
10th week	28.73 ± 4.34	28.55 ± 3.44
Mean difference	−0.50 ± 0.88	−0.67 ± 0.95
P-valuea	0.01	<0.001
WC (cm)
Baseline	99.31 ± 10.04	96.86 ± 9.42	0.63	0.92	0.98
10th week	97.67 ± 9.42	95.67 ± 8.72
Mean difference	−1.63 ± 4.17	−1.19 ± 3.66
P-valuea	0.02	0.06
SBP (mmHg)
Baseline	125.40 ± 15.68	129.26 ± 17.29	0.54	0.82	0.92
10th week	118.34 ± 16.33	120.39 ± 15.87
Mean difference	−7.07 ± 13.21	−8.87 ± 11.74
P-valuea	0.01	<0.001
DBP (mmHg)
Baseline	85.35 ± 8.71	87.64 ± 11.32	0.93	0.55	0.59
10th week	81.43 ± 8.71	83.87 ± 9.94
Mean difference	−3.91 ± 6.26	−3.76 ± 8.34
P-valuea	0.01	0.01
FBG (mg/dL)
Baseline	104.62 ± 33.85	99.47 ± 23.21	0.89	0.11	0.12
10th week	104.32 ± 20.11	98.61 ± 9.92
Mean difference	−0.30 ± 16.87	−0.86 ± 19.03
P-valuea	0.91	0.79
TG (mg/dL)
Baseline	165.78 ± 41.12	180.16 ± 47.24	0.51	0.15	0.15
10th week	151.84 ± 34.04	171.33 ± 46.95
Mean difference	−13.94 ± 35.14	−8.83 ± 30.25
P-valuea	0.02	0.08
TC (mg/dL)
Baseline	198.35 ± 39.86	191.22 ± 33.15	0.83	0.97	0.92
10th week	194.59 ± 40.54	189.01 ± 38.65
Mean difference	−3.76 ± 34.29	−2.22 ± 24.50
P-valuea	0.51	0.59
LDL-C (mg/dL)
Baseline	112.54 ± 31.56	107.70 ± 28.03	0.96	0.85	0.82
10th week	109.48 ± 34.51	104.93 ± 31.70
Mean difference	−3.06 ± 31.45	−2.77 ± 21.46
P-valuea	0.56	0.44
HDL-C (mg/dL)
Baseline	52.65 ± 9.88	47.49 ± 7.72	0.88	0.30	0.26
10th week	54.75 ± 7.73	49.80 ± 8.80
Mean difference	2.09 ± 6.72	2.32 ± 6.24
P-valuea	0.06	0.03
LDL-c/HDL-c ratio
Baseline	2.17 ± 0.63	2.30 ± 0.61	0.99	0.58	0.63
10th week	2.00 ± 0.54	2.12 ± 0.61
Mean difference	−0.17 ± 0.66	−0.17 ± 0.49
P-valuea	0.12	0.04
Adropin (pg/ml)
Baseline	65.61 ± 55.40	51.11 ± 21.43	0.31	0.12	0.08
10th week	84.17 ± 56.91	62.36 ± 21.20
Mean difference	18.56 ± 32.73	11.25 ± 28.53
P-valuea	0.01	0.02
Atherogenic index of plasma
Baseline	0.49 ± 0.13	0.57 ± 0.14	0.59	0.13	0.07
10th week	0.44 ± 0.11	0.53 ± 0.16
Mean difference	−0.05 ± 0.11	−0.04 ± 0.09
P-valuea	0.01	0.01

^aResulted from a paired t-test for comparison of within-group differences.

^bResulted from an independent-samples t-test for comparison of between-group differences.

^cResulted from ANCOVA, adjusted for baseline values for comparison of between-group differences.

^dResulted from ANCOVA, adjusted for baseline values, age, and sex for comparison of between-group differences.

Reported values are means ± SD.