Table 2: Time course of systolic and diastolic blood pressure throughout the experimental period in rats fed a reference diet (RD), sucrose-rich diet (SRD) or SRD with cannabis oil (SRD+Ca).

	RD	SRD	SRD+Ca
Diastolic Blood Pressure (mmHg)
Week 1 (day 0 to 7)	75.14 ± 1.51^a	76.572 ± 1,491^a	74.30 ± 1.07^a
Week 2 (day 8 to 15)	74.27 ± 1.10^b	80.540 ± 1.550^a	76.05 ± 1.06^b
Week 3 (day 16 to 21)	78.20 ± 1.34^b	87.909 ± 1.382^a	79.53 ± 1.05^b
Systolic Blood Pressure (mmHg)
Week 1 (day 0 to 7)	111.17 ± 0.63^a	109.78 ± 1.36^a	108.52 ± 1.03^a
Week 2 (day 8 to 15)	109.00 ± 0.75^b	120.28 ± 1.04^a	110.80 ± 1.72^b
Week 3 (day 16 to 21)	119.58 ± 0.98^b	132.96 ± 0.19^a	117.67 ± 0.25^b

Values are expressed as mean ± SEM, n=6. Values in a line that do not share the same superscript letter are significantly different (P < 0.05) when one variable at a time was compared by one-way ANOVA followed by Newman-Keuls´ test.