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Table 1 Characteristics of the study population

From: The impact of polyunsaturated fatty acid-based dietary supplements on disease biomarkers in a metabolic syndrome/diabetes population

Valuable

Corn oil (CO)

Botanical oil (BO)*

Fish oil

 

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

No. of subjects

21 (35.6)

22 (37.3)

16 (27.1)

Female

15 (71.4)

10 (45.5)

10 (62.5)

African American

6 (28.6)

8 (36.4)

7 (43.8)

Diabetic

14 (66.7)

18 (81.8)

13 (81.3)

Metabolic syndrome

7 (33.3)

4 (81.2)

3 (18.8)

Hypertensive

16 (76.2)

19 (86.4)

9 (56.3)

 

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

Age (years)

59.9 (9.8)

57.4 (7.8)

56.2 (8.7)

Weight (kg)

97.4 (17.2)

97.8 (18.7)

96.9 (15.1)

BMI (kg/m2)

34.8 (5.3)

34.1 (6.4)

33.2 (4.8)

Waist/hip ratio

0.9 (0.1)

0.9 (0.1)

0.9 (0.1)

Serum Glucose (mg/dl)

130.0 (44.9)

128.9 (50.8)

133.5 (64.7)

  1. *BO arm received a combination of borage and echium oils.
  2. p values were not significantly different between assignment groups, as calculated by Chi-square analysis of different proportions for each variable assigned to each treatment group, nor by One Way ANOVA for morphometric values [mean (SD)].