Curcuma longa extract improves serum inflammatory markers and mental health in healthy participants who are overweight: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Table 3 Baseline scores for the MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) and Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaire^a

	Placebo group (n = 40)		CLE group (n = 39)		p value
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p value
SF-36 scores, points
Physical functioning (PF)	92.5	6.8	91.8	12.8	0.762
Role physical (RP)	94.7	10.2	93.1	13.4	0.558
Bodily pain (BP)	88.3	13.5	89.0	16.6	0.826
General health (GH)	71.7	13.9	77.6	13.9	0.060
Vitality (VT)	65.3	16.1	69.9	20.4	0.269
Social functioning (SF)	94.7	10.2	91.7	14.4	0.287
Role emotional (RE)	94.4	10.9	92.9	13.2	0.599
Mental health (MH)	80.1	12.2	79.4	15.4	0.812
Physical component summary (PCS)	53.4	4.4	52.2	7.0	0.382
Mental component summary (MCS)	56.5	5.9	58.0	8.8	0.358
POMS scores, points
Anger-hostility (AH)	45.5	6.9	45.4	6.2	0.979
Confusion-bewilderment (CB)	46.9	6.9	46.0	8.1	0.619
Depression-dejection (DD)	47.3	6.8	47.0	7.5	0.877
Fatigue-inertia (FI)	45.2	5.8	44.2	8.1	0.540
Tension-anxiety (TA)	48.7	8.9	45.9	7.8	0.142
Vigor-activity (VA)	54.4	9.1	56.3	9.2	0.362
Friendliness (F)	56.3	9.4	56.5	9.3	0.901
Total mood disturbance (TMD)	45.3	6.8	43.7	8.0	0.332

CLE: a mixture of a hot water extract and a supercritical carbon dioxide extract of Curcuma longa
^aValues represent the means and standard deviations for n = 40 (placebo group) or n = 39 (CLE group). Comparisons of SF-36 and POMS data were performed with the two-tailed unpaired Student’s t test when variance was homogeneous or the Aspin-Welch t test when variance was heterogeneous

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