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Table 4 Blood glucose and plasma insulin concentrations after 4 weeks feeding of butter based diets

From: Feeding butter with elevated content of trans-10, cis-12 conjugated linoleic acid to lean rats does not impair glucose tolerance or muscle insulin response

Dietary group

Blood glucose (mM)

Plasma insulin (pM)

Low control butter diet

9.1 ± 0.2 (13)

6.1 ± 0.3 (13)

Hhigh control butter diet

9.1 ± 0.3 (15)

5.4 ± 0.4 (15)

Low SARA butter diet

9.7 ± 0.3 (15)

7.7 ± 0.4 (15)b

High SARA butter diet

9.4 ± 0.4 (14)

5.2 ± 0.5 (14)

Pooled control butter diet

9.1 ± 0.2 (28)

5.8 ± 0.2 (28)

Pooled SARA butter diet

9.6 ± 0.2 (29)a

6.5 ± 0.4 (29)a

  1. Data are presented as mean plus/minus standard error. Sample size is shown in parentheses. asignificantly different from pooled control butter diet (p < 0.05); bsignificantly different from all other groups (p < 0.05).