Article
[Food phytosterol ester efficiency on the plasma lipid reduction in moderate hypercholesterolemic subjects].
Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia - 1 Aug 2002
Lottenberg Ana M P, Nunes Valéria S, Nakandakare Edna R, Neves Mônica, Bernik Márcia, Santos José E, Quintao Eder C R
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed at relating the pattern of response to dietary plant sterol ester (PSE) treatment of plasma lipids concentrations and apo E polymorphisms. METHODS: Patients (20-60y old: 50 women; 10 men) with primary moderate hypercholesterolemia were fed margarine (20g/d), received no treatment (placebo), and were fed PSE (2.8g/d = 1.68 phytosterols), during 3 periods of 4 weeks each, in a crossover,...
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