Table 3 |
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Blood total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C), HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C), ratio of LDL-C/HDL-C, triglycerides (TG) and plasma insulin concentrations of pigs at week 12 of feeding lard, natural palm oil (NPO), chemically modified palm oil (CPO) and enzymatically modified palm oil (EnPO) diets* |
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Lard |
NPO |
CPO |
EnPO |
Female |
Male |
SEM Diet |
SEM Sex |
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Cholesterol (mmol/L) |
3.38 |
3.37 |
3.57 |
3.56 |
3.90 |
3.04 |
0.77 |
0.74 |
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LDL-C (mmol/L) |
1.87 |
1.69 |
2.00 |
2.04 |
2.25 |
1.55 |
0.64 |
0.50 |
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HDL-C (mmol/L) |
1.51 |
1.68 |
1.57 |
1.52 |
1.59 |
1.55 |
0.19 |
0.22 |
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LDL-C:HDL-C ratio |
1.21 |
1.17 |
1.38 |
1.44 |
1.58 |
1.03 |
0.29 |
0.44 |
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Triglycerides (mmol/L) |
0.49b |
0.30a |
0.39ab |
0.64b |
0.41 |
0.50 |
0.11 |
0.14 |
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Insulin (μU/ml) |
3.40 |
3.09 |
4.15 |
4.57 |
3.28 |
4.33 |
1.18 |
0.91 |
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Initial concentrations were used as covariates for the analysis. *Means are average of 10 observations for treatments and 20 observations for sexes. Data presented as mean ± SEM. a,b,cMeans with different superscripts between dietary treatments differ significantly at P < 0.05. |
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Ponnampalam et al. Nutrition Journal 2011 10:53 doi:10.1186/1475-2891-10-53 |
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