Alterations of liver enzymes and lipid profile in response to exhaustive eccentric exercise: vitamin D supplementation trial in overweight females with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Table 1 Mean ± SD of anthropometric indices before and after the intervention among the groups

Variables	Experimental group (n = 11)		Control group (n = 11)		P Value ^a
Variables	Before	After	Before	After	P Value ^a
Age (years)	26.90 ± 4.18	–	26.18 ± 4.42	–
Height (cm)	165.45 ± 4.98	–	164.01 ± 6.01	–
BW (kg)	76.68 ± 4.08	75.13 ± 4.87	74.12 ± 3.23	75.16 ± 3.27	0.788
P Value^b	0.047*		0.051
BMI (years)	28.03 ± 1.87	27.48 ± 2.07	27.63 ± 2.01	27.94 ± 1.90	0.419
P Value^b	0.044*		0.064
BFP (%)	29.60 ± 3.44	27.54 ± 2.60	28.60 ± 2.57	29.46 ± 2.96	0.023^¥
P Value^b	0.001*		0.066
WHR (cm)	0.87 ± 0.022	0.85 ± 0.031	0.87 ± 0.045	0.88 ± 0.042	0.010^¥
P Value^b	0.001*		0.054
CHO (gr/Day)	450.23 ± 23.12	446.21 ± 28.17	452.31 ± 30.07	453.14 ± 20.76	0.342
P Value^b	0.446		0.689
Protein intake (gr/Day)	120.14 ± 5.14	118.28 ± 6.23	122.52 ± 4.64	123.16 ± 7.61	0.534
P Value^b	0.563		0.734
Lipid intake (gr/Day)	96.23 ± 6.14	95.18 ± 3.17	95.14 ± 4.25	97.23 ± 4.04	0.764
P Value^b	0.737		0.492

BW Bodyweight, BMI body mass index, BFP body fat percentage, WHR waist–hip ratio, CHO carbohydrate
P values superscript with “a” is calculated using an independent t-test for comparing Δ between groups
P values superscript with “b” is calculated using dependent t-test for comparing pre-test and post-test within groups
*Significantly different comparing after and before
^¥Significantly different between time points

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