Giraffe said:post 105697I did not mean a wash-out period, but the lack of a baseline. If you look at the figure with the study design, you see that both groups on hypercaloric diets were two weeks on HP conditions and two weeks on the NP conditions. Only the order was different (HP-NP vs NP-HP). At the end of each two-weeks period the body composition was measured. All data were pooled (table 3). The higher lean mass on HP conditions compared to NP conditions could be the result of a loss of lean mass during NP conditions.haidut said:post 105632 Why do you care about the wash out period?
That is possible, yes. But if there was loss of muscle mass involved in NP I would expect it to be reported. In many studies, loss of muscle mass is grounds for stopping the study altogether.
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