Correction to “Consumption of synbiotic bread decreases triacylglycerol and VLDL levels while increasing HDL levels in serum from patients with type-2 diabetes”

Shakeri, H, Hadaegh, H, Abedi, F, Tajabadi-Ebrahimi, M, Mazroii, N, Ghandi, Y and Asemi, Z. Consumption of synbiotic bread decreases triacylglycerol and VLDL levels while increasing HDL levels in serum from patients with type-2 diabetes. Lipids. 2014;49:695–701. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-014-3901-z.

The journal is aware of a number of issues raised regarding the integrity of research published by Zatolleh Asemi and colleagues (Grey et al., 2020). An investigation into these concerns has been conducted by The National Committee for Ethics in Biomedical Research Iran, in coordination with Kashan University of Medical Sciences (KAUMS). The Editor has independently considered the concerns reported for this article and did not find evidence of questionable research practices at this time. The following corrections have therefore been made.

In the above-referenced published article, the study was reported to have taken place between October 2013 and December 2013. This is an apparent error in the preparation of the manuscript. The correct timing of the study was between December 2013 and January 2014. In the published article Figure 1 and Tables 1, 2, and 3 state that the number of participants for which samples were analyzed was 26. This is a systematic typographical error; the correct number is 24 participants. The authors neglected to acknowledge the contribution to the study of Drs. Maryam Tajabadi-Ebrahimi and Haleh Hadaegh. The correct version of the acknowledgment should therefore be: Acknowledgments: The present study was supported by a Grant (No. 92107) from the Vice-Chancellor for Research, KAUMS, Kashan, Iran. The authors would like to thank the staff of Gholabchi Clinic (Kashan, Iran) for their assistance in this project. We are grateful to the Research and Development Department of Sahar Bread Company, Tehran, Iran that provided probiotic and synbiotic products for the present study. Furthermore, we are grateful to the Research and Development Department of Tak Gene Zist Company, Tehran, Iran that provided Lactobacillus sporogenes for this study. The authors wish to acknowledge the contributions of Drs. Maryam Tajabadi-Ebrahimi and Haleh Hadaegh who conducted the analysis of the blood samples. The authors apologize for any inconvenience these errors and oversights may have caused.