3.7. OPG
At the start of the intervention, no significant difference in the concentration of OPG was shown between the active treatment and the placebo groups (active: 5931 mmol/L vs. placebo: 5725 mmol/L; In order to validate the obtained results, the ANCOVA evaluation showed that, in addition to the inclusion concentration of OPG and the active treatment, MR-proADM also influenced the results (From the evaluation of the biomarkers, it could, thus, be concluded that an intervention with selenium and coenzyme Q