Table 2.
Change in psychological symptoms (Post-diet minus Pre-diet baseline scores) between categories after 1-month on the low glutamate diet (ANOVA).
| N = 39 | Pre-diet | Post-diet |
Change score |
P -valuea |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | ||||
| Anxiety (GAD-7) | ||||
| Minimal/mild (n = 23) | 4.39 (3.20) | 3.48 (3.21) | −0.91 (3.25) | 0.004 |
| Moderate (n = 6) | 13.00 (1.26) | 5.67 (2.42) | −7.33 (2.16) | |
| Severe (n = 10) | 19.00 (1.83) | 14.40 (7.70) | −4.60 (6.70) | |
| PTSD (PCL-C) | ||||
| Minimal/mild (n = 5) | 22.40 (3.36) | 21.00 (3.74) | −1.40 (3.78) | 0.006 |
| Moderate (n = 8) | 33.88 (2.59) | 32.50 (7.86) | −1.38 (7.87) | |
| Severe (n = 26) | 63.88 (9.28) | 48.65 (16.86) | −15.23 (13.54) | |
| Depression (CES-D) | ||||
| Minimal/mild (n = 9) | 11.33 (2.82) | 12.89 (5.06) | 1.56 (5.08) | <0.0001 |
| Moderate (n = 7) | 18.57 (2.70) | 12.86 (3.93) | −5.71 (4.07) | |
| Severe (n = 23) | 37.04 (9.12) | 22.78 (12.75) | −14.26 (9.97) | |
Change Score, Post-diet minus Pre-diet Baseline Scores.
a
ANOVA. Bold, significant at the Bonferroni corrected p-value of 0.016.