Metabolic Syndrome and Hypertension Resulting from Fructose Enriched Diet in Wistar Rats

Table 1

Effects of fructose supplementation on abdominal fat weight, liver weight, heart weight, theoretical creatinine clearance, and plasma urea, ASAT, ALAT, albumin, and lipid levels. FF: fructose fed; C: control.

	C	FF
Heart weight (% bw)	0.274 ± 0.005	0.281 ± 0.006	0.37
Abdominal fat weight (% bw)	3.86 ± 0.27	5.04 ± 0.24	0.0029
Liver weight (% bw)	2.39 ± 0.06	2.68 ± 0.06	0.0016
Plasma urea (mg/L)	409.9 ± 18.6	300.2 ± 13.3	0.0001
ASAT/ALAT	2.01 ± 0.12	2.42 ± 0.18	0.36
Theoretical creatinine clearance (mL/min)	2.13 ± 0.07	2.08 ± 0.05	0.60
NEFA (µmol/L)	532.6 ± 15.7	627.5 ± 50.1	0.34
Triglycerides (mg/L)	836.0 ± 67.0	1393.9 ± 113.7	0.0004
Total cholesterol (mg/L)	779.6 ± 37.2	795.8 ± 21.4	0.69
NEFA/total cholesterol (molar ratio)	0.274 ± 0.014	0.307 ± 0.024	0.27
NEFA/albumin (molar ratio)	1.071 ± 0.033	1.208 ± 0.093	0.61
Total cholesterol/triglycerides (molar ratio)	2.33 ± 0.23	1.42 ± 0.09	0.0005