López-Chillón · 2019 · Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Seventy days of sprout intake and inflammatory markers
How did inflammatory markers change when adults with overweight added fresh sprouts to their usual diet?
Human · uncontrolled before-and-after intake trial
Key findings
Change in IL-6 from baseline
Mean IL-6 decreased from 4.76pg/mL at baseline to 2.11pg/mL after 70 days.
Intervention using everyday food
This study added fresh sprouts to meals rather than using purified compounds and examined an amount feasible in a daily diet.
Inflammatory markers measured
Blood inflammatory markers, including IL-6, were measured.
Inflammatory Marker · IL-6
Within-person mean before and after · pg/mL
40 adults with excess weight · no parallel control group
Fresh broccoli sprouts 30 g/day
Read the original paper and sources ↓View values and units
| Group | Value |
|---|---|
| Baseline | 4.76 |
| Day 70 | 2.11 |
Study design
Forty adults with overweight consumed 30g/day of fresh broccoli sprouts for 70 days. A 70-day follow-up period on their usual diet without sprouts followed; there was no parallel control group.
- Participants
- 40 adults with overweight
intake trial without a parallel control group - Intake and observation
- Fresh sprouts 30g/day · 70 days
follow-up afterward - Measures
- IL-6 · blood marker of inflammation
Study context
This uncontrolled study compared overweight adults before and after 70 days of intake, then followed them for another 70 days after they resumed their usual diet.
Original paper and sources
Effects of long-term consumption of broccoli sprouts on inflammatory markers in overweight subjects.
- Journal
- Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2019 · 38(2): 745-752
- First published
- 2018-03-13