Clinical Efficacy of Persian Medicine Diet Combined with Western Medicine-Based Diet on Proteinuria in Pediatric Nephrotic Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Table 2

Dietary intake of participants.

	Intervention group (N = 9)	Control group (N = 10)	MD	P
Energy (Kcal)
Baseline	1554.44 ± 123.36	1402.00 ± 175.21	152.44 (−309.41, 614.30)	0.496^b
End	1497.78 ± 114.71	1456.00 ± 124.12	41.77 (−317.42, 400.98)	0.386^c
MD (95% CI)	56.66 (−12.72, 126.06)	−54.00 (−249.12, 141.12)
P^a	0.096	0.547
Carbohydrate (gr)
Baseline	213.33 ± 16.91	198.90 ± 14.49	14.43 (−32.29, 61.16)	0.523^b
End	205.67 ± 15.74	192.70 ± 16.47	12.96 (−35.37, 61.30)	0.745^c
MD (95% CI)	7.66 (−33.36, 48.70)	6.20 (−33.82, 46.22)
P^a	0.678	0.734
Protein (gr)
Baseline	46.44 ± 4.54	51.10 ± 3.83	−4.65 (−15.98, 6.67)	0.398^b
End	37.11 ± 2.89	40.60 ± 3.28	−3.48 (−12.82, 5.84)	0.622^c
MD (95% CI)	9.33 (1.03, 17.63)	10.50 (0.71, 20.28)
P^a	0.032	0.038
Fat (gr)
Baseline	56.67 ± 4.54	53.60 ± 4.08	3.06 (−9.77, 15.91)	0.683^d
End	61.33 ± 3.59	57.90 ± 4.94	3.43 (−9.68, 16.55)	0.660^c
MD (95% CI)	−4.66 (−18.21, 8.87)	−4.30 (−16.11, 7.51)
P^a	0.450	0.033 (P^e)

Values are presented as Mean ± SD, and mean difference (95% CI) are presented for all the variables. MD = mean difference; SD = standard deviation; CI = confidence interval; ANCOVA = analysis of covariance. P^a = paired samples t-test. P^b = independent samples t-test. P^c = ANCOVA test, adjusted for baseline values. P^d = Mann–Whitney U test. P^e = Wilcoxon signed-ranked test.