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Table 3 Effects of different diet combinations on the development of MetS

From: Animal models of metabolic syndrome: a review

Researchers (Year)

Types of diet

Treatment length

Strains of animal

Components of metabolic syndrome

Obesity

Hyperglycemia

Hypertension

Dyslipidemia

Poudyal et al. [29]

High-carbohydrate high-fat diet

16 weeks

Male Wistar rats

✓

✓

✓

✓

Panchal et al. [30]

High-carbohydrate high-fat diet

16 weeks

Male Wistar rats

✓

✓

✓

✓

Hao et al. [31]

High-carbohydrate high-fat diet

14 weeks

Male Wistar rats

✓

✓

✓

✓

Senaphan et al. [22]

High-carbohydrate high-fat diet

16 weeks

Male Sprague-Dawley rats

✗

✓

✓

✓

Dissard et al. [117]

High-fat high-fructose diet

32 weeks

Male C57BL/6 mice

✓

✓

✗

✓

Barrios-Ramos et al. [118]

Hypercholesterolemic diet & fructose drinking water

4 weeks

Male Wistar rats

✓

✓

✓

✓

Gancheva et al. [116]

High-fat high-fructose diet

8 weeks

Male Wistar rats

✓

✓

-

✓

Yang et al. [119]

High-fat high sucrose diet

4 weeks

Male C57BL/6 J mice

✓

✓

-

✓

Zhou et al. [120]

High-sucrose high-fat diet

48 weeks

Male Sprague-Dawley rats

✓

✓

-

✓

  1. Table represents the effects of different diet combinations on each component of MetS. The symbol ‘✓’ and ‘✗’ indicate the presence and absence of significant effect of the sign of MetS respectively, while ‘-’ indicates the effects on the component not being evaluated in the study