. 2011 Nov 30;47(3):291–302. doi: 10.1007/s11745-011-3629-y

Table 4.

Effect of diets differing in Zn concentration and fat supplementation on plasma and liver lipid concentrations (Experiment 1)

Diet Zn concentration		7 μg/g			100 μg/g			ANOVA: p values
Fat supplement		CT	BT	SF	CT	BT	SF	Zn	Fat	Zn × Fat
Plasma lipids
Triglycerides^d (mg/dL plasma)	M	113^b	102^b	28^a	108^b	100^b	40^a	NS	<0.001	NS
Triglycerides^d (mg/dL plasma)	SD	36	20	6	35	42	18	NS	<0.001	NS
Total cholesterol (mg/dL plasma)	M	104.3^b	67.2^a	73.7^a	82.5^a	73.8^a	73.7^a	NS	<0.001	<0.01
Total cholesterol (mg/dL plasma)	SD	14.5	11.0	9.5	17.2	10.5	11.2	NS	<0.001	<0.01
HDL-Cholesterol (mg/dL plasma)	M	83.1^b	45.4^a	50.5^a	61.5^a	54.7^a	58.6^a	NS	<0.001	<0.001
HDL-Cholesterol (mg/dL plasma)	SD	13.3	7.0	6.2	12.3	10.7	10.4	NS	<0.001	<0.001
Liver lipids
Total lipids^d (mg/g fresh wt)	M	39.6^a	48.8^ab	58.7^b	42.3^a	61.4^b	82.2^c	<0.001	<0.001	NS
Total lipids^d (mg/g fresh wt)	SD	5.4	10.4	9.0	5.5	10.0	15.3	<0.001	<0.001	NS
Triglycerides^e (mg/g fresh wt)	M	14.9^ab	11.7^a	25.3^b	14.3^a	25.1^b	46.3^c	<0.001	<0.001	<0.01
Triglycerides^e (mg/g fresh wt)	SD	5.6	6.3	12.0	5.2	8.7	6.9	<0.001	<0.001	<0.01
Cholesterol^d (mg/g fresh wt)	M	2.00^a	2.98^b	4.74^c	2.15^a	3.40^b	7.24^c	<0.001	<0.001	<0.01
Cholesterol^d (mg/g fresh wt)	SD	0.22	0.43	0.80	0.25	0.45	1.02	<0.001	<0.001	<0.01
Phospholipids (mg/g fresh wt)	M	23.0^a	25.2^a	24.7^a	23.5^a	25.0^a	26.0^a	NS	NS	NS
Phospholipids (mg/g fresh wt)	SD	1.9	2.8	4.1	3.1	2.4	3.5	NS	NS	NS

NS not significant, SD standard deviation

^{a, b, c}Group means (M) with different superscript letters within rows and within the same zinc level significantly differ (p < 0.05; Tukey test)

^dANOVA after ln transformation of the data

^eANOVA after x ^1/2 transformation of the data