Clinical Study
Pomegranate Polyphenols Lower Lipid Peroxidation in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes but Have No Effects in Healthy Volunteers: A Pilot Study
Table 2
Baseline characteristics of healthy controls and subjects with type 2 diabetes (T2DM).
| Characteristic | Healthy controls | T2DM subjects |
| Gender | | | Male/female (/) | 0/9 | 2/6 | Age (mean, SD) | 47.1, 6.3 | 52.4, 13.3 | Weight kg (mean, SD) | 62.6, 10.3 | 99.3, 29.1 | Height cm (mean, SD) | 163.7, 6.0 | 167.6, 7.2 | BMI kg/m2 | 23.3, 3.0 | 35.3, 10.3 | Waist circumference inches (mean, SD) | 31.06, 2.3 | 42.4, 7.9 | Supplement use (%) | 7 (78%) | 4 (50%) | Vitamin/mineral (%) | 7 (78%) | 4 (50%) | Herb or botanical (%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | Antioxidant in the past (%) | 2 (22%) | 1 (13%) | Fish oil (%) | 1 (11%) | 1 (13%) | Blood pressure medication (%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (25%) | Diabetic medication (%) | 0 (0%) | 6 (75%) | Diabetes duration (years) | N/A | 3.5 | Aspirin use (%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (13%) | Other medications (%) | 1 (11%) | 6 (75%) |
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