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Table 3.

Effect of different diets on parameters of metabolic syndrome at 8 weeks

Parameters of metabolic syndrome	Whole wheat flour diet	Refined wheat flour diet	Fructose and whole wheat flour diet	Fructose and refined wheat flour diet
BP (mmHg)	133 ± 4.63^a	134 ± 4.72^a	149 ± 6.98^ab	162 ± 5.4^b
FBS (mg/dl)	111 ± 5.37^a	101 ± 9.0^a	149 ± 7.29^b	159 ± 11.24^b
Chol (mg/dl)	67 ± 2.22^a	51 ± 7.24^a	68 ± 4.64^a	68 ± 2.74^a
TGL (mg/dl)	46 ± 4.32^ab	47 ± 3.15^a	64 ± 11.7^ab	65 ± 2.27^b
LDL (mg/dl)	13 ± 1.60^a	20 ± 1.68^b	17 ± 1.58^ab	22 ± 1.62^b
HDL (mg/dl)	57 ± 3.19^a	24 ± 1.64^ab	48 ± 4.1^a	26 ± 2.85^ab
CRP (mg/dl)	0.15 ± 0.01^a	0.24 ± 0.03^a	0.22 ± 0.02^a	0.23 ± 0.02^a
Insulin (ng/dl)	3.6 ± 0.54^a	7.13 ± 0.76^a	7.3 ± 1.45^a	16.0 ± 1.86^b

Blood pressure (BP), Fasting blood sugar (FBS), Total cholesterol (Chol), Triglycerides (TGL), Low density lipoproteins (LDL), High density lipoproteins (HDL), C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum insulin expressed as Means ± SEM.

^abWithin rows, between control and treated animals, means with different superscript letters differ significantly (p < 0.05).