Women with endometriosis improved their peripheral antioxidant markers after the application of a high antioxidant diet

Table 5 Antioxidant enzyme activity and oxidative stress markers in the control and HAD groups.

	Superoxide Dismutase (U/mL)		Glutathione Peroxidase (nmol/min/mL)		Malondialdehyde (μM/L)		Lipid Hydroperoxides (μM/L)
	Control	HAD	Control	HAD	Control	HAD	Control	HAD
Basal	3.9 ± 1.6	4.0 ± 1.1	1031.1 ± 114.2	1033.6 ± 108.6	31.6 ± 5.4	31.1 ± 4.7	12.3 ± 2.2	12.1 ± 3.3
1^st month	3.8 ± 2.0	4.8 ± 1.3^#	1078.7 ± 119.9	1078.3 ± 105.2	30.6 ± 5.2	30.9 ± 4.2	11.9 ± 2.3	11.4 ± 3.2
2^nd month	4.1 ± 1.2	5.6 ± 1.8*^#	1066.8 ± 112.2	1106.6 ± 121.7	30.4 ± 4.9	28.7 ± 4.0	11.7 ± 2.8	11.0 ± 2.9
3^rd month	3.9 ± 1.5	6.1 ± 2.0*^#	1081.9 ± 108.0	1300.5 ± 111.7*^#	31.3 ± 4.7	25.2 ± 2.3*^#	11.5 ± 2.4	9.6 ± 2.2*^#
4^th month	3.8 ± 1.4	9.2 ± 3.2*^#	1076.6 ± 118.8	1564.3 ± 137.3*^#	30.9 ± 3.2	23.0 ± 2.3*^&	11.8 ± 2.1	8.2 ± 1.9*^#

Data are means ± SD. * Friedman Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance on Ranks (Dunn's post hoc test) for comparisons in the control and HAD groups (basal vs. all months). ^# Mann-Whitney U-Rank Sum test for comparisons in basal and every month concentrations between the control and HAD groups. P < 0.05 in all cases.

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