Bioassessment of flaxseed powder and extract against hyperglycemia and hypercholesterolemia using Sprague Dawley rats

Clinical Phytoscience

International Journal of Phytomedicine and Phytotherapy

Table 7 Effect of diets and study intervals on HDL-c (mg/dL) of rats in different studies

Studies	Diets	Study intervals (Days)			Means
Studies	Diets	0	28	56	Means
Study 1	Control	33.75 ± 2.02	33.29 ± 1.33	33.25 ± 1.66	33.43 ± 1.02
	Functional	33.87 ± 1.69	34.08 ± 1.36	34.29 ± 2.40	34.08 ± 1.70
	Nutraceutical	32.81 ± 1.96	33.22 ± 1.33	33.39 ± 1.67	33.14 ± 2.32
	Means	33.47 ± 1.67	33.53 ± 1.34	33.64 ± 2.36
Study II	Control	39.05 ± 2.73	37.68 ± 2.11	37.22 ± 2.16	37.98 ± 1.66
	Functional	38.51 ± 1.92	38.82 ± 2.43	38.97 ± 1.63	38.76 ± 2.82
	Nutraceutical	39.84 ± 1.99	40.38 ± 2.36	40.64 ± 1.98	40.28 ± 2.74
	Means	39.13 ± 1.95	38.96 ± 2.85	38.94 ± 1.65
Study 111	Control	45.12 ± 2.25	44.53 ± 3.17	43.79 ± 2.23	44.48 ± 3.07
	Functional	45.94 ± 3.21	46.58 ± 2.39	46.82 ± 3.38	46.44 ± 1.42
	Nutraceutical	46.71 ± 2.80	47.68 ± 2.84	48.02 ± 2.39	47.48 ± 2.35
	Means	45.92 ± 3.21	46.26 ± 2.46	46.21 ± 2.22

Study I (Normal rats), Study II (Hyperglycemic rats), Study III (Hypercholesterolemic rats). Lettering indicates significant differences between means using ANOVA (two-way factorial) with posthoc Tukey’s honestly significant difference (HSD) test