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Sitosterol administration in normal and hypercholesteremic subjects; the effect in man of sitosterol therapy on serum lipids and lipoproteins

Sachs, B.A.; Weston, R.E.

A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine 97(6): 738-752

1956


ISSN/ISBN: 0888-2479
PMID: 13312715
Accession: 014185489

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Serum cholesterol fell in 5 normal human subjects given a mixture of beta - and dihydro- beta -sitosterols immediately before meals, but rose in some patients with disorders of lipid metabolism. Sitosterol reduced the serum cholesterol concentration and arrested the growth of xanthomata in a subject with xanthomatosis.

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