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Table 2 Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics

From: Favourable effects of consuming a Palaeolithic-type diet on characteristics of the metabolic syndrome: a randomized controlled pilot-study

Variable

Palaeolithic (n 18)

Reference (n 16)

P*

 

Mean or %

SD

Mean or %

SD

 

Demographic

     

  Gender: women (%)

72.2

 

75.0

 

0.86

  Age (year)

52.0

10.2

55.4

9.0

0.32

  Race

    

0.13

  Caucasian (%)

100

 

87.5

  

  Asian (%)

0

 

12.5

  

Characteristics of the MetS (n), range 0-5

3.7

1.1

2.7

1.3

0.02

(1) Abdominal circumference ♂ ≥102 cm, ♀ ≥88 cm (%)

94.4

 

100.0

 

0.35

(2) Triglycerides ≥1.7 mmol/l (%)

38.9

 

18.8

 

0.21

(3) HDL-cholesterol ♂ <1.0 mmol/l , ♀ <1.3 mmol/l (%)

66.7

 

12.5

 

0.00

(4) BP ≥130/85 mmHg or BP medication (%)

83.3

 

75.0

 

0.56

(5) Glucose fasting ≥5.6 mmol/l (%)

77.8

 

43.8

 

0.04

  1. *P values between the two intervention groups at baseline.