Research Article
The Effect of Labisia pumila var. alata on Postmenopausal Women: A Pilot Study
Table 1
Baseline characteristics among participants of randomized controlled trial between Labisia pumila and placebo groups.
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Characteristics | All* () | Trial groups* | value‡ | | Labisia () | Placebo () |
| | Age (years) | 52.7 (1.9) | 52.9 (1.8) | 52.6 (1.9) | 0.445 | | Age at menarche (years) | 13.9 (1.7) | 13.9 (1.7) | 13.9 (1.7) | 0.790 | | Duration of menopause (years) | 3.2 (3.1) | 3.0 (2.9) | 3.6 (3.2) | 0.495 | | Number of parity (%)† | | | | | | <5 | 23 (36.5) | 8 (27.6) | 15 (44.1) | 0.174 | | ≥5 | 40 (63.5) | 21 (72.4) | 19 (55.9) | | | Household income per month (%)† | | | | | | ≤RM 1,000 | 39 (61.9) | 19 (65.5) | 20 (58.8) | 0.586 | | >RM 1,000 | 24 (38.1) | 10 (34.5) | 14 (41.2) | | | Body mass index (BMI) (kg/m2) | 26.5 (3.7) | 26.4 (4.5) | 26.5 (3.1) | 0.814 | | Waist hip ratio | 0.85 (0.08) | 0.85 (0.08) | 0.86 (0.09) | 0.812 | | Diastolic BP (mm Hg) | 82.9 (10.1) | 81.8 (10.5) | 83.8 (9.9) | 0.439 | | Systolic BP (mm Hg) | 125.3 (18.5) | 122.8 (18.5) | 127.3 (18.4) | 0.339 | | Total cholesterol (mmol/L) | 5.2 (1.1) | 5.1 (1.1) | 5.3 (1.1) | 0.601 | | Triglycerides (mmol/L) | 1.7 (1.4) | 1.4 (1.1) | 1.9 (1.6) | 0.095 | | Fasting glucose (mmol/L) | 6.1 (1.9) | 5.8 (0.7) | 6.2 (2.6) | 0.433 | | Female hormones (IU) | | | | | | FSH | 49.0 (22.2) | 45.8 (23.7) | 51.8 (20.8) | 0.297 | | LH | 23.6 (13.6) | 23.8 (14.8) | 23.3 (12.6) | 0.877 | | Estrogen | 38.7 (19.0) | 35.7 (12.2) | 41.2 (22.9) | 0.271 |
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*Values are expressed as mean (standard deviation, SD) unless otherwise specified.
‡Determined by independent -test; †chi-square tests.
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