Involvement of Inflammation and Adverse Vascular Remodelling in the Blood Pressure Raising Effect of Repeatedly Heated Palm Oil in Rats

Table 1

Body weight and food intake for all the experimental groups.

	Groups
	Control	FPO	1HPO	5HPO	10HPO
Food intake (g/week)	163.67±4.60	151.42±4.94	159.18±5.01	153.61±4.031	152.42±4.11
Initial body weight (g)	252.50±7.09	230.67±4.52	230.17±11.65	244.33±10.48	245.33±7.14
Final body weight (g)	485.83±34.25^∗	477.50±20.35^∗	440.67±16.96^∗	503.67±28.23^∗	504.00±30.66^∗
Weight gain (g)	233.33±36.38	246.83±20.74	210.50±27.46	259.33±36.75	258.67±36.56

Data are expressed as mean ± SEM. FPO: fresh palm oil; 1HPO: one-time-heated palm oil; 5HPO: five-time-heated palm oil; 10HPO: ten-time-heated palm oil.
^∗𝑃<0.05 versus initial body weight for the same group.