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 (𝑛/𝑛)	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/m^2	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%)