2.2. Effects on Postprandial Glucose Levels
No time × treatment interaction was found in the repeated measures of glucose levels (No significant difference was observed at any time point in glucose concentrations or incremental areas under the curve (iAUC). iAUC values for glucose over 180 min after the control, LDM, and HDM interventions were 79.52 (±67.15) mmol × min/L, 116.4 (±19.8) mmol × min/L, and 81.25 (±63.44) mmol × min/L, respectively, as mean (±SD).The peak glucose concentration (Cmax) for the control meal (white bread) for all 16 subjects was 6.78 (±1.11) mmol/L. Additionally, the incremental peak glucose concentration (iCmax) was 1.7 (±1.06) mmol/L as a mean (±SD), with a range of 0.28–3.52 mmol/L. Six out of sixteen subjects had an incremental glucose response to the control meal lower than 1 mmol/L. Based on the response to the carbohydrate load of the control meal and using 1 mmol/L as a reproducibly measurable increase for iCmax, we defined the “lower-normal” and “higher-normal” responder sub-cohorts, with the range in iCmax values between 0.28–0.97 mmol/L and 1.33–3.52 mmol/L, respectively. The values for parameters of postprandial glycaemia after the consumption of a control meal in two sub-cohorts are given in In the “higher-normal” sub-cohort, we observed the time × treatment interaction in the repeated measures of glucose levels and a significant difference between both Cmax and iCmax values after HDM compared to the control meal (