Table 4.
| CHANGE | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reference | # | Subjects | Duration | Diet | CHO (g/d) | weight (%) | HDL (%) | TAG (%) | TAG/HDL (%) | Glucose (%) | Insulin (%) | DBP (mm Hg) |
| Brehm et al. 2003 | 1 | Obese Women | 6 mo | Low-CHO | 41–97 | -9.3 | 13.4 | -23.4 | -32.4 | -9.1 | -14.8 | -5 |
| LF | 163–169 | -4.2 | 8.4 | 1.6 | -6.3 | -4.0 | -23.0 | -1 | ||||
| Sondike et al. 2003 | 2 | Overweight Adolescents | 12 wk | Low-CHO | 37 | -10.7 | 8.7 | -40.5 | -45.2 | |||
| LF | 154 | -4.1 | 4.2 | -5.4 | -9.2 | |||||||
| Samaha et al. 2003 | 3 | Obese Men/Women | 6 mo | Low-CHO | 150 | -4.5 | 0.0 | -20.2 | -20.2 | -8.6 | -27.3 | |
| LF | 201 | -1.4 | -2.4 | -4 | -1.6 | -1.6 | 5.6 | |||||
| Foster et al. 2003 | 4 | Obese Men/Women | 1 yr | Low-CHO | ad lib | -7.3 | 18.2 | -28.1 | -29.5 | |||
| LF | ad lib | -4.5 | 1.4 | 0.7 | -2.6 | |||||||
| Volek et al. 2004 | 5 | Overweight Women | 4 wk | Low-CHO | 29 | -3.9 | 1.3 | -23 | -28.3 | -3.8 | -8.8 | |
| LF | 186 | -1.4 | -8.6 | -11.2 | -4.2 | 1.3 | 23.2 | |||||
| Sharman et al. 2004 | 6 | Overweight Men | 6 wk | Low-CHO | 36 | -5.6 | -3.3 | -44.1 | -42.3 | -5.8 | -41.5 | |
| LF | 224 | -3.6 | -6.6 | -15 | -8.3 | -5.2 | -28.1 | |||||
| Brehm et al. 2004 | 7 | Obese Women | 4 mo | Low-CHO | 69 | -10.8 | 16.3 | -37.3 | -46.1 | -9 | ||
| LF | 174 | -6.8 | 4.5 | -10.3 | -14.2 | -3 | ||||||
| Meckling et al. 2004 | 8 | Obese Men/Women | 10 wk | Low-CHO | 59 | -7.7 | 12.2 | -29.4 | -37.1 | -8.0 | -28.7 | -6.1 |
| LF | 225 | -7.4 | -15.4 | -25.4 | -11.8 | -10.2 | -3.3 | -5 | ||||
| Stern et al. 2004 | 9 | Obese Men/Women | 1 yr | Low-CHO | 120 | -3.9 | -2.8 | -28.6 | -26.8 | |||
| LF | 230 | -2.3 | -12.3 | 2.7 | 29.6 | |||||||
| Yancy et al. 2004 | 10 | Obese Men/Women | 24 wk | Low-CHO | 30 | -12.3 | 9.8 | -47.2 | -51.8 | -6 | ||
| LF | 198 | -6.7 | -2.9 | -14.4 | -12.1 | -5.2 | ||||||
| Aude et al. 2004 | 11 | Obese Men/Women | 12 wk | Low-CHO | ad lib | -6.2 | -2.6 | -23.2 | -21.1 | |||
| LF | ad lib | -3.4 | -7 | -10.5 | -3.8 | |||||||
| Seshadri et al. 2004 | 12 | Obese Men/Women | 6 mo | Low-CHO | 113 | (-8.5) | -2.4 | -7.4 | -40 | |||
| LF | 198 | (-3.5 kg) | -2.4 | -2.3 | 11.2 | |||||||
| McAuley et al. 2004 | 13 | Obese Women | 8 wk | Low-CHO | 41 | -6.9 | 0.9 | -38.8 | -44.2 | -5.9 | -39.3 | |
| LF | 172 | -4.4 | -6 | -17.5 | -15.1 | -0.1 | -28.4 | |||||
| Mod-PRO | 130 | -5.8 | -4.1 | -33.9 | -31.8 | -3.9 | -24.4 | |||||
| Dansinger et al. 2004 | 14 | Obese Men/Women | 2 mo | Low-CHO | 103 | -4.7 | 8.8 | -27.6 | -26.20 | -10 | -29.5 | |
| Mod-PRO | 158 | -4.6 | 4.6 | -34 | -30.50 | -9.3 | -27.7 | |||||
| LF | 183 | -4.3 | -0.6 | -7.1 | -5.60 | -5.7 | -11 | |||||
| UltraLF | 230 | -4.9 | -10.9 | -0.6 | 8.40 | -3.5 | -7.7 | |||||