Lipids in Health and Disease

Table 5 Plasma LDL cholesterol level: effectiveness of treatments

From: The use of a Cissus quadrangularis/Irvingia gabonensis combination in the management of weight loss: a double-blind placebo-controlled study

	LDL cholesterol (mean mg/dL)				Change (%)
	Initial	4 weeks	8 weeks	10 weeks	4 Weeks-Initial	8 Weeks-Initial	10 Weeks-Initial
Placebo	76.13 ± 8.02	79.47 ± 7.50	74.35 ± 9.02	73.87 ± 8.44	4.38	-2.34	-2.96
CQ	80.41 ± 8.30	66.30 ± 11.06^b	63.69 ± 8.79^b	64.20 ± 11.13^b	-17.55^†	-20.78^‡	-20.16^‡
CQ-IG	86.11 ± 7.82	60.30 ± 9.39^b **	57.28 ± 8.36^b **	44.18 ± 10.02^a **	-29.96^†	-33.48^‡	-48.69^‡

^ap < 0.05; ^bp < 0.001; ^cp < 0.0001 compared with Placebo
*p < 0.05; **p < 0.001; ***p < 0.0001 compared with CQ
^†p < 0.05; ^‡p < 0.001 compared with Initial; intra-group analysis

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