The effects of sitosterol on serum lipids
Best, M.M.; Duncan, C.H.; Van Loon, E.J.; Wathen, J.D.
American Journal of Medicine 19(1): 61-70
1955
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9343 PMID: 14388029 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(55)90274-6
Accession: 013875227
Fourteen subjects, of whom 12 had high serum cholesterol levels, were allowed food to appetite and were given 6 to 8 g. of beta -sitosterol by mouth immediately before meals for from 13 to 64 weeks; the usual intake of beta -sitosterol was 20 to 25 g. daily. Fasting blood samples were analysed at intervals for total cholesterol, lipid P and total lipid. In 7 subjects the effect of sitosterol on serum lipoproteins, as estimated by ultracentrifuge, was studied.