Research Article
Hypoglycemic and Hypolipidemic Potential of a High Fiber Diet in Healthy versus Diabetic Rabbits
Table 5
Biochemical parameters obtained on day 28 (severe diabetic rabbits).
| Severe diabetic rabbits | Standard chow ( ± SE) | Supplemented chow ( ± SE) | Standard/supplemented variation |
| Cholesterol (mg/dL) | 317.18 ± 32.97 | 182.09 ± 15.60 | ↓ 42.6%1 | LDL-cholesterol (mg/dL) | 215.70 ± 17.23 | 123.80 ± 9.70 | ↓ 31.6%1 | HDL-cholesterol (mg/dL) | 29.79 ± 3.46 | 20.38 ± 3.09 | ↓ 31.6%1 | Triglycerides (mg/dL) | 715.97 ± 128.56 | 527.43 ± 89.87 | ↓ 26.3%1 | Atherogenic index | 8.71 ± 1.67 | 6.90 ± 0.45 | ↓ 20.8%1 | Uric acid (mg/dL) | 0.23 ± 0.03 | 0.08 ± 0.02 | ↓ 66.0%1 | Glycosylated hemoglobin (%) | 6.46 ± 0.05 | 4.93 ± 0.05 | ↓ 23.6%1 | Ca (mg/dL) | 12.86 ± 0.54 | 11.70 ± 0.52 | ↓ 9.0% | P (mg/dL) | 8.22 ± 0.27 | 6.0 ± 0.19 | ↓ 27.0% 1 | Mg (mg/dL) | 2.84 ± 0.09 | 2.15 ± 0.08 | ↓ 24.3% 1 | Cl (mg/dL) | 83.40 ± 5.63 | — | — | Na (mg/dL) | 133.22 ± 8.31 | 137.22 ± 5.64 | ↓ 3.0% | K (mg/dL) | 3.54 ± 0.05 | 3.44 ± 0.04 | ↓ 2.8% | Fe (mg/dL) | 87.10 ± 4.30 | 102.0 ± 4.13 | ↓ 14.6% |
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1Significative differences (-test, P ≤ 0.05).
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