Effectiveness of Ascophyllum nodosum and Fucus vesiculosus on Metabolic Syndrome Components: A Real-World, Observational Study

Table 1

Patient characteristics by gender (data are or %).

Characteristic	Males	Females
	214	277
Age (years)			0.006
Body weight (kg)			<0.0001
Waist circumference (cm)			<0.0001
Fasting blood glucose (mg/dL)			<0.0001
HbA1c (%)
Patients with T2DM			0.28
Patients without T2DM			0.22
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)			0.0001
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)			0.06
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)			0.31
HDL cholesterol (mg/dL)			<0.0001
LDL cholesterol (mg/dL)			0.36
Triglycerides (mg/dL)			0.07
Fasting insulin (μu/mL)			0.37
HOMA-IR			0.18
Diabetes (%)	32.7	22.7	0.01
Hypertension (%)	47.7	37.9	0.03
Dyslipidemia (%)	16.8	16.6	0.95
Cardiovascular disease (%)	4.7	5.4	0.71
Number of components of the metabolic syndrome			0.49
1	2.1	2.4
2	7.2	15.0
3	27.8	27.6
4	39.2	33.9
5	23.7	21.3
10-year CVD risk (%)			<0.0001