INS and Insulin resistance: The participants did not present significant differences between groups in terms of weight, body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), homeostatic model assessment method-insulin resistance (HOMA1-IR), insulin, glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c), cholesterol, high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), aspartate-aminotransferase (AST), alanine-aminotransferase (ALT) and gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT).