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Table 4 Vitamin concentrations in the control and HAD groups.

	Serum Retinol (μM/L)		Serum α-tocopherol (μM/L)		Plasma ascorbate (μM/L)		Leukocyte ascorbate (μg/10^8 cells)
	Control	HAD	Control	HAD	Control	HAD	Control	HAD
Basal	2.0 ± 0.4	2.0 ± 0.3	14.2 ± 2.4	14.0 ± 1.8	62.7 ± 11.5	62.6 ± 10.3	27.8 ± 4.7	27.9 ± 4.8
1^st month	2.0 ± 0.3	2.1 ± 0.3	15.3 ± 2.3	15.8 ± 1.6*	62.8 ± 13.5	67.1 ± 9.9	28.0 ± 4.0	29.5 ± 4.1
2^nd month	2.1 ± 0.3	2.2 ± 0.2	14.4 ± 2.0	16.6 ± 1.8*^#	65.6 ± 11.7	79.8 ± 10.6*^#	26.1 ± 6.1	31.0 ± 3.9^#
3^rd month	1.9 ± 0.4	2.3 ± 0.3*^#	14.2 ± 2.2	18.1 ± 1.9*^#	67.1 ± 11.4	96.9 ± 9.6*^#	25.2 ± 9.9	35.8 ± 3.7*^#
4^th month	2.1 ± 0.5	2.4 ± 0.4*^#	14.3 ± 2.1	18.7 ± 1.7*^#	67.5 ± 12.0	120.6 ± 9.8*^#	28.7 ± 7.3	37.6 ± 3.9*^#

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 the basal and every month concentrations between the control and HAD groups. p < 0.05 in all cases.

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