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. 2018 Jun 1;96(8):3337–3347. doi: 10.1093/jas/sky217

Table 4.

Effect of fat encapsulation on blood parameters of nursery pigs

Item Treatments SEM2 P value
Control1 Palm oil Encapsulated palm oil1 Coconut oil Encapsulated coconut oil1 Fat source3 Encapsulation4 Fat source × encapsulation
TC,5 mg/dL
 Day 14 118.9 98.7 99.0 114.7 106.1 2.5 0.03 0.41 0.37
 Day 28 140.4 121.6 124.5 150.5 149.8 4.7 0.004 0.89 0.82
TG,5 mmol/L
 Day 14 23.53c 40.33a 28.70bc 31.67abc 37.62ab 1.93 0.97 0.46 0.04
 Day 28 29.99 34.39 35.37 33.96 31.65 2.29 0.48 0.67 0.18
HDL-C,5 mmol/L
 Day 14 204.0 191.7 220.4 213.1 241.2 6.4 0.16 0.06 0.98
 Day 28 105.5 114.9 121.5 127.6 119.7 2.8 0.27 0.89 0.15
LDL-C,5 mmol/L
 Day 14 105.4 100.1 89.1 118.3 97.1 3.9 0.25 0.03 0.30
 Day 28 53.36 44.03 46.39 57.40 52.97 7.91 0.02 0.78 0.37
SUN,5 mmol/L
 Day 14 6.57ab 7.43a 5.71bc 6.06ab 4.49c 0.31 0.02 0.004 0.88
 Day 28 7.84ab 9.30a 7.35b 6.73b 6.62b 0.27 0.01 0.06 0.09

a–cWithin a row, means with differing superscripts differ (P < 0.05). The linear model used included block (BW), treatment, and block × treatment to evaluate the difference among five treatments, P value is not shown.

1Control diet contains 6.0% soybean oil; encapsulated palm oil (granular, containing 80% palm oil), encapsulated coconut oil (granular, containing 80% coconut oil).

2SEM is for treatment within the same row.

3Palm oil vs. coconut oil.

4Encapsulation vs. not.

5TC = serum total cholesterol, TG = total triglyceride, HDL-C = high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C = low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, SUN = serum urea nitrogen.