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Table. 3. Table 3

Body weight gains and fat weight detected in HFD mice in this study

Groups	Gains during		Periovarian fat weights

	Adapt period (7 days)	Administration period (84 days)	Absolute (g)	Relative (% of body weights)
Controls
Intact	2.93±1.05	4.62±3.21	0.061±0.032	0.187±0.097
HFD	5.75±1.28^a	36.68±9.31^a	1.344±0.154^e	1.980±0.112^a
References
Metformin	6.17±1.35^a	12.45±5.92^c	0.360±0.115^eg	0.829±0.332^ac
Silymarin	5.32±1.32^a	26.03±10.66^ad	0.664±0.164^eg	1.194±0.466^ac
HBV diluted
Stock	6.32±1.05^a	12.18±5.28^c	0.316±0.101^eg	0.729±0.244^ac
2-fold	6.68±1.74^a	14.52±7.81^ac	0.383±0.142^eg	0.787±0.217^ac
4-fold	6.32±1.78^a	18.57± 6.70^ac	0.554±0.072^eg	1.124±0.317^ac

Values are expressed mean ± S.D. of six mice

Abbreviations: HFD, high fat diet; HBV: herbal black vinegar

^aP<0.01 and ^bP<0.05 compared with intact control by Least Significant Difference (LSD) test
^cP<0.01 and ^dP<0.05 compared with HFD control by LSD test
^eP<0.01 and ^fP<0.05 compared with intact control by Mann-Whitney (MW) test
^gP<0.01 and ^hP<0.05 compared with HFD control by MW test

Biomed Sci Letters 2018;24:380-9 https://doi.org/10.15616/BSL.2018.24.4.380