Medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) comprise saturated fatty acids with 6–10 carbons. Besides synthetic medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) oils there are natural sources, like coconut oil and dairy fat. Compared with long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs), the chemical and physical properties of MCFAs show substantial metabolic differences. MCFAs do not require binding to proteins such as fatty-acid binding ...

For years, the scientific and medical communities have pondered the role of triglycerides in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality risk. Although several studies have shown a relationship between elevated triglyceride levels and CVD, the degree to which triglycerides are independently associated and whether triglycerides directly cause CVD has been hotly debated. This is in contradistincti...

D iabetes carries a high risk of atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular disease, especially coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, is by far the leading cause of death among patients with type 2 diabetes. Although statins reduce the risk of major vascular events by about one-fifth per millimole per liter reduction in LDL cholesterol, with similar proportional reductions in major coronary events,...

background and aims: dyslipidemia is one of the major factors implicated in the development of the vascular complications of diabetes. in this study, it was evaluated the association between serum lipids profile and hemoglobin a1c (hba1c) in type 2 diabetes mellitus. methods: in this cross-sectional study, the serum lipid profile and hba1c was studied on 562 iranian patients who were older than...

background coronary artery disease (cad) is one of the major causes of death worldwide. there is a direct relationship between increased levels of blood cholesterol, triglycerides (tg), low density lipoproteins (ldl), high density lipoproteins (hdl), nitric oxide (no), and high sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-crp) and the cad. walnut may reduce these factors and consequently decrease the ris...