Research Article

Effect of Repetitive Glucose Spike and Hypoglycaemia on Atherosclerosis and Death Rate in Apo E-Deficient Mice

Table 1

Body weight, food intake, and laboratory data for each group after 15 weeks’ administration.

Control group
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Glucose group
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Glucose + iplagliflozin group
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Insulin group
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Glucose + insulin group
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Body weight (g)25.6 ± 0.325.7 ± 0.325.3 ± 0.325.8 ± 0.525.5 ± 0.4
Food intake (g/day)3.1 ± 0.13.0 ± 0.13.0 ± 0.13.0 ± 0.12.9 ± 0.1
HbA1c (%)3.8 ± 0.03.8 ± 0.13.8 ± 0.03.8 ± 0.03.8 ± 0.0
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)14.0 ± 0.413.5 ± 0.514.8 ± 0.514.2 ± 0.514.2 ± 0.6
HDL cholesterol (mmol/L)0.3 ± 0.00.3 ± 0.00.3 ± 0.00.3 ± 0.00.3 ± 0.0
LDL cholesterol (mmol/L)2.2 ± 0.12.2 ± 0.12.4 ± 0.12.2 ± 0.12.3 ± 0.1
Triglycerides (mmol/L)0.9 ± 0.10.7 ± 0.10.9 ± 0.10.8 ± 0.10.9 ± 0.1
Tumour necrotic factor- (pg/mL)15.8 ± 1.015.6 ± 0.914.4 ± 0.514.0 ± 0.715.1 ± 0.9
Interleukin-1 (pg/mL)32.0 ± 3.030.5 ± 1.927.1 ± 1.428.7 ± 0.830.5 ± 3.0
Interleukin-6 (pg/mL)11.9 ± 1.3 ()21.4 ± 6.9 ()11.7 ± 1.3
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13.8 ± 2.412.9 ± 1.4

Data are mean ± SEM.