Table 3.

Blood lipid and glucose levels before and after treatments.

	Intervention group (n = 30)			Control group (n = 28)
	Before treatment	After treatment	p-value	Before treatment	After treatment	p-value
Triglyceride (mmol/L)	2.05 ± 1.38	1.60 ± 1.01	0.155	2.08 ± 1.04	2.04 ± 1.21	0.895
Cholesterol (mmol/L)	4.60 ± 1.28	4.52 ± 1.22	0.805	5.44 ± 1.82	5.36 ± 1.77	0.868
HDL (mmol/L)	1.09 ± 0.26	1.13 ± 0.28	0.569	1.05 ± 0.26	1.04 ± 0.31	0.896
LDL (mmol/L)	2.49 ± 0.94	2.53 ± 1.04	0.876	3.15 ± 1.23	3.15 ± 1.16	1.000
Blood glucose (mmol/L)	5.94 ± 1.25	6.11 ± 1.96	0.690	6.51 ± 3.02	5.67 ± 1.56	0.196
HbA1c (%)	6.14 ± 1.30	5.97 ± 0.81	0.546	6.25 ± 1.11	6.17 ± 1.35	0.810