It has been reported that plasma and liver cholesterol concentrations decrease when animals are fed with chitosan, but the mechanism is unclear. Four wk old male SD (Sprague-Dawley) rats were fed a commercial rat diet (cholesterol-free diet, negative control, NC), cholesterol-enriched diet containing 5% of chitosan (CH) or cholesterol-enriched diet containing 5% of cellulose (CE) and 5% of lard...

Encouraging intervention trials drive our expectations toward more aggressive cholesterol-lowering therapies, lower target levels, and less severe hypercholesterolemia. Available studies may predict which patients, degrees of total cholesterol (TC) reduction, and baseline and target levels of TC provide the most clinical benefit. Data were pooled from seven primary and nine secondary controlled...

The biological variability of total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and calculated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) was determined in three serial (monthly) capillary and venous specimens from 83 subjects. The analytes were quantified with a desktop analyzer. We saw no differences in the coefficient of biological variability (CVb) b...

A cohort study of 90 days was designed to explore the hypercholesterolemic associated blood pressure with intake extruded flaxseed powder (EFSP) fortified yogurts. The subjects were distributed into two groups (1 and 2), then samples taken. Descriptive statistics used for comparison between groups. significant increase in serum total cholesterol (TC) (6.330.48 6.510.04 mmol/dL) low-density lipi...

OBJECTIVE Reverse cholesterol transport is the process by which excess cholesterol is removed from peripheral tissue by HDL and delivered to the liver for excretion. Presently, methods of measuring in vivo reverse cholesterol transport do so by monitoring the appearance in the feces of labeled cholesterol that originated from peripheral macrophage foam cells. These methods do not account for ch...

The effect of dietary persimmon (Pers, 7.0%) on lipid metabolism and antioxidant activity was investigated in 40 male Wistar rats adapted to cholesterol-free or 1% cholesterol diets. The rats were divided in four groups of 10. The basal diet contained wheat starch, casein, soybean oil, and mineral and vitamin mixtures. The control group (C) consumed the basal diet. To the basal diet were added ...

BACKGROUND High cholesterol levels are associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease and stroke. Understanding the distribution of serum cholesterol levels in each country is valuable index for use in public health planning. This study aimed to construct nomograms of total cholesterol (TC) levels and establish the cut-points specific to Iranian population. METHODS Data on serum TC ...

The antihyperglycemic activity of a polysaccharide fraction from Lycium barbarum (LBP) was investigated. The various parameters studied included body weight, fasting blood glucose levels, total cholesterol (TC) and triglyceride (TG) in diabetic and normal mice. LBP treatment (20, 40 mg/ kg body weight) for 28 days resulted in a significant decrease in the concentration of fasting blood glucose ...

Few studies have examined associations between different subcategories of cholesterol and cognitive function. We examined relationships between total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), triglyceride levels and cognitive performance in the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study, a community-based study of cardiovascular risk factors...