Efficiency of Barley Bran and Oat Bran in Ameliorating Blood Lipid Profile and the Adverse Histological Changes in Hypercholesterolemic Male Rats

Table 3

Effect of oat bran and barley bran supplementation for 8 weeks on kidney function in rats with induced hypercholesterolemia.

Parameters	Statistics	G1	G2	G3	G4
Uric acid mg/dL	Mean ± SE	1.96±0.15	2.48±0.22	1.94±0.13	2.32±0.16
	t-test		−2.58*	2.12 NS	1.24 NS
Creatinine umol/L	Mean ± SE	0.36±0.06	0.38±0.05	0.34±0.05	0.34±0.05
	t-test		−0.34 NS	−0.25 NS	0.23 NS
Urea umol/L	Mean ± SE	38.20±1.06	43.00±0.70	37.00±1.58	37.20±1.49
	t-test		−4.49**	4.04**	4.39**

Significant differences with controls calculated by paired sample t-test. *means significant at 𝑃<0.05, **means highly significant at 𝑃<0.01, ***means very high significant at 𝑃<0.001, and NS means nonsignificant.