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Safety evaluation of certain food additives - ipcs inchem

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204 STEVIOL GLYCOSIDES (addendum)<br />

placebo group. The overall treatment effect (change from week 0) was statistically<br />

significantly different from placebo for supine and standing diastolic blood pressure<br />

and mean arterial pressure, but this was not considered to be clinically meaningful<br />

(Wheeler, 2007b; Maki et al., 2008a).<br />

An additional pre-specified analysis to address the questions raised by the<br />

Committee at its sixty-third meeting focused on the subgroup <strong>of</strong> 20 control and 28<br />

test subjects (dose adjusted for mean body weight <strong>of</strong> subgroup = 4.7 mg/kg bw per<br />

day expressed as steviol) with baseline systolic blood pressure below the sexspecific<br />

medians (baseline

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