Table 4.

Effect of dietary intervention on serum adipokine and cytokine concentrations

	No BG (n = 22)				BG (n = 18)
	Before	After	Δ	p	Before	After	Δ	p
Adiponectin (μg/mL)	10.49 ± 4.42	12.36 ± 5.51	1.87	0.15	12.20 ± 5.22	11.12 ± 4.58	−1.08	0.32
Leptin (ng/mL)	20.01 ± 8.40	10.16 ± 6.09	−9.85	0.000001	18.59 ± 10.67	7.15 ± 5.43	−11.44	0.000002
hs IL-6 (pg/mL)	1.69 ± 0.71	1.41 ± 0.37	−0.28	0.17	1.57 ± 0.44	1.47 ± 0.45	−0.10	0.20
sIL-6R (ng/mL)	57.20 ± 13.64	55.55 ± 12.49	−1.65	0.50	56.12 ± 17.64	54.75 ± 17.41	−1.37	0.40
sgp130 (ng/mL)	362.57 ± 74.09	347.44 ± 60.35	−15.13	0.28	350.18 ± 71.18	342.18 ± 59.31	−8.00	0.40
MIF (ng/mL)	35.87 ± 10.61	34.06 ± 15.65	−1.81	0.57	37.82 ± 11.40	39.19 ± 16.45	1.37	0.80
MCP-1 (pg/mL)	374.67 ± 64.86	341.93 ± 58.18	−32.74	0.0006	359.57 ± 67.22	325.16 ± 71.15	−34.41	0.0002
MMP-9 (ng/mL)	814.18 ± 428.91	643.52 ± 319.81	−170.66	0.14	810.99 ± 429.82	690.18 ± 203.58	−120.81	0.15
IL-18 (pg/mL)	291.63 ± 85.81	259.71 ± 54.38	−31.92	0.023	273.23 ± 66.56	231.43 ± 52.87	−41.80	0.004

Δ represents difference after vs before dietary intervention within the No BG and BG groups

p values refer to the differences before and after dietary intervention within the No BG and BG groups