Randomized, Double-Blind, and Placebo-Controlled Clinic Report of Intranasal Low-Intensity Laser Therapy on Vascular Diseases

Table 3

Blood lipid index (mean ± S.E.M).

BL	Treatment group (n)		Verified statistics		Control group (n)		Verified statistics
	Before	After	T	P	Before	After	T	P
TC (mmol/L)	4.44±1.72	3.78±0.95	2.603	<0.05	4.10±1.15	4.07±1.26	0.096	>0.05
TGs (mmol/L)	1.88±0.67	1.70±0.77	1.366	>0.05	1.85±0.71	1.87±0.70	0.110	>0.05
HDL-c(mmol/L)	1.07±0.27	1.20±0.24	2.790	<0.01	1.00±0.31	1.17±0.41	1.812	>0.05
LDL-c (mmol/L)	2.73±0.76	2.48±0.51	2.115	<0.05	1.39±0.70	2.33±0.93	4.424	<0.001
ApoA-I (g/L)	1.29±0.29	1.35±0.27	1.367	>0.05	1.24±0.26	1.22±0.34	0.256	>0.05
ApoB (g/L)	0.89±0.29	0.81±0.19	1.788	>0.05	0.81±0.29	0.86±0.33	0.125	>0.05
A/B	1.58±0.43	1.64±0.42	0.733	>0.05	1.54±0.44	1.55±0.49	0.083	>0.05

BL: blood lipid, TC: total cholesterol, TGs: triglycerides, HDL-c(LDL-c): high(low)-density lipoprotein cholesterol, ApoA-I(ApoB): Apolipoprotein A-I(Apolipoprotein B), A/B: ApoA-I/ApoB.