Antioxidants Supplementation in Elderly Cardiovascular Patients

Table 1

Plasma levels of antioxidants and oxidative stress’ parameters at the beginning of the study.

	Smokers; (𝑛=32)	Nonsmokers; (𝑛=80)	Hypertensive; (𝑛=20)	Sedentary; (𝑛=71)	ACVD; (𝑛=26)
𝛼-TP	19.21±2.73	22.15±2.29	21.33±3.15	21.98±2.34	20.37±2.44
𝛽-Carotene	0.29±0.03	0.34±0.03	0.32±0.05	0.33±0.04	0.27±0.05
Ubiquinol-10	0.22±0.04	0.31±0.05	0.26±0.04	0.26±0.03	0.25±0.07
Glutathione	0.64±0.04	0.73±0.08	0.68±0.06	0.69±0.05	0.67±0.08
TBARS	2.41±0.63	1.31±0.37	1.77±0.36	1.56±0.29	1.97±0.31
TBARS/𝛼-TP	0.13±0.03^#	0.06±0.02	0.08±0.02	0.08±0.01	0.10±0.17
Lipid oxidation (%)	18.71±2.49^∗	12.61±2.18	16.62±1.98	15.31±2.27	16.15±2.07

Plasma concentration is expressed in 𝜇M as mean value ± SEM; 𝛼-TP: 𝛼-tocopherol; TBARS: thiobarbituric acid reactive substances.
^∗𝑃<0.05, ^#𝑃<0.04 versus nonsmokers.