Table 2.

The serum concentration of leptin and adiponectin before and at the end of the trial in and between both groups as well as main and interaction effects.

		Leptin (ng/mL)		Adiponectin (µg/mL)
		Baseline	End	Baseline	End
Vegan (VeD) †		17.3 ± 11.2	15.8 ± 11.5	13.4 ± 6.9	15.5 ± 7.6
Meat-rich (MrD) †		16.6 ± 14.7	16.9 ± 14.8	12.3 ± 7.2	11.6 ± 7.3
VeD (Baseline vs. end value) p *		0.16		0.06
MrD (Baseline vs. end value) p *		0.39		0.4
VeDvs. MrD (Baselines) p +		0.55		0.34
VeDvs. MrD (End values) p +			0.6 §		0.025 §
Main & interaction effects °
p-value	time	0.88		0.6
	diet	0.43		0.58
	sex	<0.001		0.001
	time × diet	0.64		0.17
	time × sex	0.37		0.56
	time × diet × sex	0.99		0.014

Results are presented as average value ± standard deviation; MrD = Meat-rich diet, VeD = Vegan diet. ^† vegan diet group n = 26, meat-rich diet group n = 27, * Wilcoxon signed-rank-test, ⁺ Mann-Whitney-U-Test, ° Mixed ANOVA, ^§ adjusted for baseline. Significant p-values are shown in bold.