Table 4 Summary of five parameters from clinical trial to evaluated skin wrinkles—an average roughness (R3) as a primary endpoint, and four parameters including skin roughness (R1), maximum roughness (R2), smoothness depth (R4), and arithmetic average roughness (R5) as the secondary endpoints
From: Development of Polymeric Micelles of Oleanolic Acid and Evaluation of Their Clinical Efficacy
Evaluation parameter | Time | Average ± standard deviation (A.U) | Rate of change (%) | ||
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Test product | Control product | Test product | Control product | ||
R1 | Before use | 0.204 ± 0.063 | 0.178 ± 0.062 | - | - |
4 weeks | 0.191 ± 0.053 | 0.187 ± 0.062 | − 4.629 | 8.037 | |
8 weeks | 0.180 ± 0.056 | 0.180 ± 0.056 | − 9.973 | 4.799 | |
R2 | Before use | 0.127 ± 0.033 | 0.118 ± 0.033 | - | - |
4 weeks | 0.124 ± 0.029 | 0.125 ± 0.034 | − 1.048 | 7.261 | |
8 weeks | 0.119 ± 0.034 | 0.126 ± 0.032 | − 5.803 | 9.536 | |
R3 | Before use | 0.094 ± 0.023 | 0.087 ± 0.023 | - | - |
4 weeks | 0.093 ± 0.023 | 0.091 ± 0.025 | − 0.673 | 5.127 | |
8 weeks | 0.086 ± 0.020 | 0.095 ± 0.024 | − 7.835 | 9.971 | |
R4 | Before use | 0.112 ± 0.037 | 0.096 ± 0.042 | - | - |
4 weeks | 0.099 ± 0.030 | 0.101 ± 0.039 | − 8.594 | 10.764 | |
8 weeks | 0.097 ± 0.036 | 0.094 ± 0.038 | − 9.747 | 3.491 | |
R5 | Before use | 0.039 ± 0.017 | 0.031 ± 0.018 | - | - |
4 weeks | 0.035 ± 0.015 | 0.033 ± 0.018 | − 6.333 | 17.556 | |
8 weeks | 0.034 ± 0.014 | 0.032 ± 0.018 | − 7.083 | 8.556 |