Table 1.

Blood plasma parameters.

Parameters	Control group	MetS patients	MetS patients after supplementation	Control versus MetS patients	Before versus after supplementation
N	11	66	66
Lipid peroxidation (µmol MDA/l)	0.871 ± 0.185	1.304 ± 0.479	0.814 ± 0.241	0.001	0.05
Total cholesterol (mmol/l)	3.61 ± 0.30	4.44 ± 0.86	4.28 ± 0.83	0.001	0.05
LDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)	2.14 ± 0.31	2.76 ± 0.71	2.61 ± 0.73	0.005	0.05
HDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)	1.41 ± 0.31	1.18 ± 0.25	1.22 ± 0.24	0.01	0.05
Triacylglycerols (mmol/l)	0.86 ± 0.28	1.26 ± 0.60	1.11 ± 0.53	0.01	0.05
TAC “fast”: rapidly reacting antioxidants (µM of Trolox/l)	515.6 ± 69.8	531.5 ± 82.6	558.1 ± 61.7	NS	NS
TAC “slow”: long reacting antioxidants (µM of Trolox/l)	538.4 ± 79.1	452.2 ± 95.2	495.3 ± 70.2	0.01	0.01