Table 3.

Biochemical characteristics of orange juice consumers and non-consumers according to gender and serum cholesterol level

	Normolipidemic		Hypercholesterolemic
n	56	34	23	16
Orange juice	Non-consumers	Consumers	Non-consumers	Consumers
mL/d	0	530 ± 188	0	486 ± 145
Triacylglycerol (mmol/L)	1.15 ±0.37	1.11 ±0.55	1.86 ± 0.63	2.16 ±1.12
Cholesterol (mmol/L)
Total	5.08 ±0.70	4.54 ±0.78*	6.77 ± 0.41	6.40 ±0.58*
HDL	1.20 ±0.29	1.16 ±0.31	1.14 ± 0.27	1.16 ± 0.23
LDL	3.35 ±0.61	2.74 ±0.80*	4.78 ± 0.48	4.20 ± 0.86*
LDL/HDL ratio	2.93±0.86	2.57 ±2.57*	4.46 ± 1.25	3.73 ±1.00*
Apolipoprotein (g/L)
A-I	1.40 ±0.25	1.36 ±0.25	1.41 ± 0.28	1.39 ± 0.18
B	0.90 ±0.19	0.79 ±0.21*	1.27 ± 0.17	1.12 ± 0.17*
Homocysteine (μmol/L)	9.95 ±2.81	9.17 ±2.31	11.1 ±2.53	10.0 ± 2.31

Data are expressed as means ± SD.

Statistical comparison (test t) was between consumers and non-consumers groups of normolipidemic and hypercholesterolemic individuals.

*p < 0.05.

^# Normolipidemic: total cholesterol < 6.2 mmol/L.

^##Hypercholesterolemic: total cholesterol ≥ 6.2 mmol/L.