Maternal dietary resistant starch does not improve piglet’s gut and liver metabolism when challenged with a high fat diet

Table 2 Total cholesterol (mg/dl), triglycerides (mg/dl), high density lipoprotein (mg/dl), low density lipoprotein (mg/dl) and ratio in fasted pigs’ serum after 6 weeks of HF challenge (n = 7/treatment)

Treatment	TC	TG	HDL	LDL	ratio LDL/TC
DS CON	95.3^a,b	40.7^b	46.3^b	40.8^a	42.6^a
DS HF	105.3^a	44.0^b	58.7^a	37.8^a,b	35.9^b
RS CON	86.4^b	38.3^b	43.8^b	35.0^ab	40.4^a,b
RS HF	101.7^a	54.0^a	59.6^a	31.3^b	30.1^c
Global SEM	2.66	1.91	1.90	1.55	1.27
P-values
Maternal treatment	0.21	0.26	0.78	0.05	0.04
Piglet treatment	0.01	< 0.01	< 0.001	0.27	< 0.001
Interaction	0.59	0.07	0.53	0.90	0.35

^{a, b} Between treatments for every parameter measured, values having a different superscript letter are significantly different (p < 0.01)
DS CON digestible starch maternal diet combined with a control piglet diet, DS HF digestible starch maternal diet combined with a high fat piglet diet, RS CON resistant starch maternal diet combined with a control piglet diet, RS HF resistant starch maternal diet combined with a high fat piglet diet, SEM standard error to the mean. TC total cholesterol, TG triglycerides, HDL high density lipoprotein, LDL low density lipoprotein

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