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Subject demographics. The last row in the table, group 5, represents subjects over 50 years of age recruited into the subsidiary study to evaluate age effects on serum lutein and MPOD responses.
| Group | Dose | Number recruited |
Subjects who completed study | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Male/female | Age ± SD (yrs) | |||
| 1 | 0 mg (plac) | 10 | 10 | 6/4 | 22.3 ± 3.4 |
| 2 | 5 mg | 25 | 17 | 8/9 | 23.7 ± 5.9 |
| 3 | 10 mg | 25 | 22 | 15/7 | 24.2 ± 7.9 |
| 4 | 20 mg | 25 | 24 | 14/10 | 24.3 ± 3.6 |
| 5 | 20 mg | 15 | 14 | 5/9 | 56.0 ± 4.1 |
