Table 2.
Plasma biochemical and inflammatory marker levels, at the end of the dietary intervention.
| CONT | FRUCT | FRUCTMIN |
Global P
[P between two groups] |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | (SEM) | Mean | (SEM) | Mean | (SEM) | ||
| GOT (U/L), n = 7 |
105.14 | (13.062) | 82.14 | (11.066) | 84.71 | (7.383) | 0.279 |
| GPT (U/L), n = 7 |
50.86 | (8.681) | 38.57 | (1.192) | 36.57 | (2.626) | 0.146 |
| Total bilirubin (mg/L), n = 5–7 |
2.00 | (0.0655) | 1.90 | (0.0447) | 2.07 | (0.127) | 0.481 |
| Uric acid (mg/L), n = 5–7 |
6.14 | (0.662) | 4.72 | (0.371) | 5.01 | (0.403) | 0.161 |
| Urea (g/L), n = 5–7 |
0.286 | (0.0104) | 0.148 | (0.0198) | 0.186 | (0.0210) | <0.001 [(C versus F) < 0.001; (C versus FM) 0.001; (F versus FM) 0.163] |
| Creatinine (mg/L), n = 5–7 |
5.14 | (0.153) | 4.56 | (0.108) | 5.00 | (0.162) | 0.052 [(C versus F) 0.019; (C versus FM) 0.492; (F versus FM) 0.065] |
| Total proteins (g/L), n = 5–7 |
59.57 | (0.634) | 62.98 | (0.881) | 61.49 | (0.710) | 0.018 [(C versus F) 0.006; (C versus FM) 0.068; (F versus FM) 0.182] |
| Albumin (g/L), n = 5–7 |
27.23 | (0.342) | 29.50 | (0.214) | 29.01 | (0.304) | <0.001 [(C versus F) < 0.001; (C versus FM) 0.001; (F versus FM) 0.283] |
| Total cholesterol (g/L), n = 5–7 |
0.686 | (0.0334) | 0.666 | (0.100) | 0.753 | (0.0390) | 0.525 |
| HDL-cholesterol (g/L), n = 5–7 |
0.357 | (0.0224) | 0.3540 | (0.0486) | 0.397 | (0.0218) | 0.518 |
| LDL-cholesterol (g/L), n = 5–7 |
0.201 | (0.0126) | 0.204 | (0.0227) | 0.229 | (0.0201) | 0.505 |
| HDL-cholesterol/total cholesterol, n = 5–7 |
0.520 | (0.0140) | 0.536 | (0.0104) | 0.527 | (0.00888) | 0.637 |
| HDL-cholesterol/LDL cholesterol, n = 5–7 |
1.82 | (0.189) | 1.75 | (0.164) | 1.81 | (0.171) | 0.963 |
| Ferritin (U/L), n = 5–7 |
24.33 | (2.577) | 19.18 | (0.450) | 19.63 | (0.374) | 0.082 [(C versus F) 0.055; (C versus FM) 0.055; (F versus FM) 0.859] |
| OPG (pg/mL), n = 6-7 |
789.57 | (226.538) | 571.21 | (40.265) | 667.87 | (83.676) | 0.606 |
| RANKL (pg/mL), n = 6-7 |
10.15 | (1.694) | 13.91 | (2.675) | 7.79 | (1.470) | 0.143 |
| OPG/RANKL, n = 5–7 |
126.37 | (57.324) | 45.37 | (9.376) | 109.38 | (41.657) | 0.401 |
| C-reactive protein (mg/L), n = 5-6 |
0.04167 | (0.0095) | 0.03800 | (0.0058) | 0.05500 | (0.0034) | 0.216 |
| Substance P (pg/mL), n = 7 |
1978.67 | (184.475) | 1968.55 | (216.113) | 2416.07 | (158.299) | 0.186 |
| TNF-α (pg/mL), n = 7 |
718.80 | (121.457) | 2282.75 | (1142.161) | 818.77 | (241.407) | 0.216 |
| IL-6 (pg/mL), n = 5-6 |
3.007 | (0.412) | 3.486 | (0.601) | 2.681 | (0.363) | 0.514 |
C or CONT: control; F or FRUCT: 10% fructose in tap water; FM or FRUCTMIN: 10% fructose in natural mineral-rich water; GOT: glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase; GPT: glutamic-pyruvic transaminase; IL-6: interleukin-6; OPG: osteoprotegerin; RANKL: receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand; SEM: standard error of the mean; TNF-α: tumor necrosis factor-alpha.