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. 2017 Jun 15;6(6):380–383. doi: 10.1530/EC-17-0108

Table 1.

Effects of Western style diet in aged female rhesus macaques.

Pooled data OvH + placebo OvH + E
Month −1 Month 24 Month −1 Month 24 Month −1 Month 24
Body weight (kg) 7.3 ± 0.3 9.04 ± 0.4*** 7.5 ± 0.5 9.3 ± 0.4## 7.1 ± 0.4 8.8 ± 0.7##
Activity
 24-h activity 139 ± 10.9 115 ± 11.3** 118 ± 7.5 93.4 ± 7.7# 160 ± 17.7 136 ± 18.5#
 Daytime activity 245 ± 20.1 201 ± 20.0** 207 ± 13.7 165 ± 16.0# 283 ± 34.6 237 ± 32.3#
 Nighttime activity 33 ± 3.1 28 ± 3.4 30 ± 4.7 22 ± 1.3 36 ± 4.1 34 ± 6.0
Hormones
 Leptin (ng/mL) AM 5.3 ± 0.6 13.3 ± 1.3*** 6.2 ± 0.7 15.5 ± 2.0## 4.3 ± 1.0 11.1 ± 1.4##
 Leptin (ng/mL) PM 6.7 ± 1.0 14.0 ± 1.2*** 7.1 ± 1.4 16.4 ± 1.9## 6.2 ± 1.5 11.6 ± 1.0#
 Cortisol (ng/mL) AM 250 ± 28.5 252 ± 17.9 276 ± 40 254 ± 25 219 ± 40 250 ± 28
 Cortisol (ng/mL) PM 128 ± 17.5 153 ± 17.6 145 ± 23 137 ± 25 111 ± 27 169 ± 25
 DHEAS (ng/mL) AM 92.9 ± 14.7 76.4 ± 13.9 75.7 ± 17.7 65.9 ± 15.5 113.0 ± 23.2 87.0 ± 23.7
 DHEAS (ng/mL) PM 47.9 ± 7.6 58.6 ± 12.3 41.0 ± 11.8 43.7 ± 9.5 54.9 ± 9.6 73.4 ± 22.1

Values represent means ± s.e.m. of 7 animals.

**

P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, (RM ANOVA, effect of time); #P < 0.05, ##P < 0.01 (RM ANOVA, followed by Fisher’s LSD test).

E, estradiol-17β; OvH, ovo-hysterectomized.