Table 4. Changes in allergy-related blood parameters.
| Items | Group | Baseline |
Consumption period (12 weeks) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| week –1 | week 4 | week 12 | ||||||
| Total IgE | IU/mL | LcS+LP0132 | n=30 | 359.3 (1,284.1) | 356.6 (1,156.3) | 408.2 (1,300.7) | # | |
| LcS | n=29 | 127.8 (117.6) | 153.3 (148.1) | # | 178.3 (170.7) | ## | ||
| Log-total IgE | IU/mL | LcS+LP0132 | n=30 | 4.1 (1.7) | 4.3 (1.6) | ### | 4.5 (1.5) | ### |
| LcS | n=29 | 4.4 (1.0) | 4.6 (1.0) | ## | 4.7 (1.0) | ### | ||
| JCP-specific IgE | UA/mL | LcS+LP0132 | n=30 | 11.3 (13.9) | 26.6 (27.1) | ### | 31.4 (30.5) | ### |
| LcS | n=29 | 12.8 (19.5) | 24.2 (25.7) | ### | 30.9 (27.3) | ### | ||
| JCyP-specific IgE | UA/mL | LcS+LP0132 | n=30 | 1.5 (1.9) | 2.1 (2.5) | ## | 4.2 (5.1) | ### |
| LcS | n=29 | 1.4 (1.8) | 1.7 (2.0) | # | 3.2 (3.3) | ### | ||
| House dust 1-specific IgE | UA/mL | LcS+LP0132 | n=30 | 8.6 (25.3) | 7.1 (19.8) | 7.2 (21.5) | ||
| LcS | n=29 | 3.8 (9.9) | 3.4 (8.3) | 3.2 (8.2) | ||||
| Mite 1-specific IgE | UA/mL | LcS+LP0132 | n=30 | 9.1 (25.4) | 8.3 (23.2) | 7.9 (22.4) | ||
| LcS | n=29 | 5.0 (13.6) | 4.4 (10.9) | 4.0 (10.4) | ||||
| Eosinophil count | /μL | LcS+LP0132 | n=30 | 201.0 (241.8) | 305.3 (286.4) | ### | 225.7 (295.6) | |
| LcS | n=29 | 182.1 (120.8) | 268.6 (182.5) | ## | 187.6 (95.6) | |||
LcS+LP0132: Lactobacillus plantarum YIT 0132-fermented citrus juice and Lactobacillus casei Shirota-fermented milk consumption group; LcS: Lactobacillus casei Shirota-fermented milk consumption group; IgE: immunoglobulin E; IU: international units; JCP: Japanese cedar pollen; JCyP: Japanese cypress pollen.
Values are shown as mean (standard deviation). Data were compared between baseline and week 4 and week 12 by the paired t-test with Bonferroni correction (#p<0.025; ##p<0.005, ###p<0.0005).