PapersPMID:27177615
A dietary cholesterol challenge study to assess Chlorella supplementation in maintaining healthy lipid levels in adults: a double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled study.
- findings
- 2
- compound
- 1
- endpoints
- 2
- Study, every finding
- RCT · 4 weeks
- Dose studied, every finding
- 5 g/day, 12 tablets with meals
- Population, every finding
- Healthy young adults (mean age about 23, 30 of 34 women) on a 3-egg-a-day (510 mg cholesterol) dietary cholesterol challenge in both arms, 4 weeks
What moved
How to read these marks →“In contrast, concomitant ingestion of 5 g Chlorella significantly suppressed the increases of TC (9.8 % versus 3.5 %; P = 0.037 for interaction) and LDL-C (14.3 % versus 1.7 %; P = 0.012 for interaction), but accelerated the increase of HDL-C (3.8 % versus 8.3 %), a finding that lacked statistical significance (Table 3, upper part).”
- Decreases total cholesterol (TC)
moderate
- Decreases LDL cholesterol
limited
Study record
- Design
- randomised controlled trial
- Species
- human
- Population
- Healthy young adults (mostly women) with serum total cholesterol < 5.18 mmol/L at screening, given a 3-egg/day dietary cholesterol challenge
- Participants
- 34
- Comparator
- placebo
- Duration
- 28 days
- Endpoints measured
- 20