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Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2012 Oct 22;60(6):1498–1502. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.112.194886

Table 1.

Effect of cafeteria feeding on body weight, fat mass, and on blood levels of glucose and leptin

Measure	Control Females		Cafeteria Females

	Day 1	Day 17	Day 1	Day 17
Body weight (g)	257.0 ± 8.1	284.3 ± 6.1	259.3 ± 9.7	305.7 ± 11.5
Gonadal WAT (g)	---	1.0 ± 0.1	---	2.2 ± 0.2^*
Peri-renal WAT (g)	---	3.6 ± 0.9	---	6.8 ± 0.6^*
IBAT (g)	---	0.4 ± 0.02	---	1.3 ± 0.2^*
Plasma Glucose (mmol/L)	8.4 ± 0.6	9.4 ± 0.5	9.1 ± 0.5	7.3 ± 0.6
Plasma Leptin (ng/ml)	0.87 ± 0.17	0.64 ± 0.15	1.03 ± 0.23	1.93 ± 0.19^†

All values are means ± SEM; WAT, white adipose tissue; IBAT, interscapular brown adipose tissue;

^*

P < 0.01 compared with Control day 17;

^†

P < 0.001 compared with Control day 17.