Cholesterol Lowering Effect of Plant Stanol Ester Yoghurt Drinks with Added Camelina Oil

Table 2

Baseline characteristics of the subjects^1,2.

	Group
	Placebo	1.6 g	2 g	1.6 g + camelina	2 g + camelina
Gender
Male	8	16	10	13	15
Female	23	12	19	16	15
Age (y)	49 ± 9.5	47.6 ± 11.6	49.4 ± 9.1	47.1 ± 9.5	49.0 ± 10.4
BMI (kg/m^2)	25.1 ± 2.9	24.7 ± 3.1	24.7 ± 3.0	25.6 ± 2.6	24.7 ± 3.1
Waist (cm)
Male	92.5 ± 7.6	95.3 ± 8.2	91.7 ± 8.9	96.0 ± 6.3	92.8 ± 5.9
Female	83.1 ± 10.4	78.9 ± 7.4	82.7 ± 8.7	84.1 ± 9.6	82.1 ± 9.9
(mmHg)	128 ± 18.6	133 ± 19.1	126 ± 17.2	127 ± 14.6	129 ± 15.1
(mmHg)	83 ± 99	81 ± 10.7	81 ± 11	83 ± 9.8	82 ± 9.9
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)	6.32 ± 0.65	5.97 ± 0.64	6.13 ± 0.74	6.07 ± 0.78	6.08 ± 0.78
LDL cholesterol (mmol/L)	3.89 ± 0.83	3.56 ± 0.65	3.76 ± 0.74	3.59 ± 0.76	3.77 ± 0.68
HDL cholesterol (mmol/L)	1.87 ± 0.47	1.86 ± 0.42	1.84 ± 0.49	1.90 ± 0.55	1.67 ± 0.45
Triacylglycerol (mmol/L)	1.26 ± 0.47	1.23 ± 0.62	1.19 ± 0.43	1.28 ± 0.61	1.40 ± 0.63
Non-HDL cholesterol (mmol/L)	4.44 ± 0.89	4.12 ± 0.77	4.29 ± 0.77	4.17 ± 0.94	4.40 ± 0.83
HDL/total cholesterol ratio	0.30 ± 0.09	0.31 ± 0.08	0.30 ± 0.07	0.32 ± 0.10	0.28 ± 0.08
CRP (mg/L)	1.62 ± 1.73	1.79 ± 3.11	1.07 ± 1.20	1.84 ± 2.08	1.06 ± 0.77
Glucose (mmol/L)	5.26 ± 0.48	5.52 ± 0.49	5.35 ± 0.32	5.29 ± 0.45	5.44 ± 0.41
TSH (mU/L)	2.08 ± 1.03	2.09 ± 0.94	2.05 ± 0.91	2.14 ± 1.14	1.92 ± 1.14

¹Differences between groups were analysed by ANOVA and chi-square tests and were not statistically significant.
²Mean ± SD.