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Table 3 paints quite the story with 6 months of change, great hba1c reduction, glucose reduction, and waist circumference (10cm!), and that TG/HDL ratio!
Table 3
Across the cohort, when comparing those whose average carbohydrate intake was 50 g or less with those with an average carbohydrate intake of greater than 50 g, there was a non-significant decrease in HbA1c (−0.7% 95% CI: −1.2 to −0.1), together with a significant reduction in body weight (−4.2 kg, 95% CI: −6.2 to −2.2), directly driven by the female participants, as shown in Table 5. In particular, the participants who reduced their HbA1c were shown to have also significantly reduced their dietary carbohydrates when grouped by intake of 50 g a day or less, compared to those with a higher dietary intake of carbohydrates (p = 0.017).
This is interesting, we see differences between low carb and very low carb, seems to be a geometric dose dependent behavior.
table 4 low carb vs very low carb
Another point that is remarkable is they did 3 day food photo surveys, where people photographed everything they ate, rather then the most standard FFQ (food frequency questionnaire) or 24-hour food recall questionnaire. Part of the benefit of having the patients in a app ecosystem.