Research Article
Hypoglycemic and Hypolipidemic Potential of a High Fiber Diet in Healthy versus Diabetic Rabbits
Table 3
Biochemical parameters obtained on day 14 (healthy rabbits).
| | Healthy rabbits | Standard chow ( ± SE) | Supplemented chow ( ± SE) | Standard/supplemented variation |
| | Cholesterol (mg/dL) | 68.31 ± 5.33 | 58.40 ± 6.14 | ↓ 14.5%1 | | LDL-cholesterol (mg/dL) | 46.45 ± 3.14 | 39.71 ± 3.61 | ↓ 14.5%1 | | HDL-cholesterol (mg/dL) | 33.24 ± 1.44 | 32.06 ± 1.63 | ↓ 3.5% | | Triglycerides (mg/dL) | 85.50 ± 8.39 | 77.65 ± 6.49 | ↓ 9.2% | | Atherogenic index | 2.06 ± 0.16 | 1.66 ± 0.12 | ↓ 19.1%1 | | Uric acid (mg/dL) | 0.11 ± 0.02 | 0.11 ± 0.01 | — | | Glycosylated hemoglobin (%) | 2.93 ± 0.40 | 2.31 ± 0.27 | ↓ 21.0%1 | | Ca (mg/dL) | 13.36 ± 0.16 | 13.24 ± 0.16 | ↓ 0.9% | | P (mg/dL) | 8.75 ± 0.13 | 8.16 ± 0.06 | ↓ 6.7% | | Mg (mg/dL) | 2.76 ± 0.10 | 2.67 ± 0.10 | ↓ 3.3% | | Cl (mg/dL) | 100.43 ± 0.87 | — | — | | Na (mg/dL) | 142.52 ± 0.85 | 142.95 ± 0.90 | ↓ 0.3% | | K (mg/dL) | 4.32 ± 0.10 | 4.09 ± 0.08 | ↓ 5.3% | | Fe (mg/dL) | 120.0 ± 2.83 | 122.95 ± 8.23 | ↓ 2.5% |
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1Significative differences (-test, P ≤ 0.05).
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