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Table 3.

Comparison of Blood Parameters Before and After Four-Week Ingestion of Purple Tea Extract

	Before Ingestion	After Ingestion

Triglyceride (mg/dL)	143.7 ± 19.4	125.9 ± 23.2
Free fatty acid (mEq/L)	0.63 ± 0.05	0.55 ± 0.04
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	195.8 ± 8.6	183.2 ± 6.6
LDL-cholesterol (mg/dL)	120.8 ± 8.9	110.4 ± 6.8
HDL-cholesterol (mg/dL)	53.6 ± 4.7	51.9 ± 4.3^a
Blood glucose (mg/dL)	102.7 ± 5.6	99.2 ± 4.5
HbA1c (%)	5.8 ± 0.2	5.6 ± 0.2^b

Values are indicated in average value and standard error (n=9). Paired t-test among was used for evaluation of significance. No significance was observed.

p=0.09;

p=0.07.