Data Collection
Finally, 51 patients completed the study and were participated in the
final analysis. No statistically significant difference was observed
between the two groups in baseline information (P>0.05).
According to the information summarized in Table 1, the mean ages of the
patients in celery and placebo groups were 50.21±6.66 and 51.34±5.91,
respectively. Regarding gender and marital status, 49.09% and 89.09%
of the subjects were female and married, respectively. It is also
noteworthy that average educational years for patients in group 1 and
group 2 were 12.33±2.76 and 12.13±2.12, respectively. Lifestyle
information showed no significant difference was observed between groups
in physical activity (4.76±3.11 versus 4.56±3.23 hours per day). The
average BMI values of all participants were 27.66 and 28.49 for females
and males, respectively. Table 2 shows that at the start of the study,
two groups were the same in serum biochemical parameters, particularly
fasting blood sugar (FBS) and lipid profile (P>0.05). also,
this table shows that the mean SBP and DBP and anti-hypertensive
medication regimen of the groups at the start point was not
significantly different (P>0.05). Table 3 showed no
significant difference between the two groups and within each group in
daily nutrition intake during the study (P>0.05).