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Curcumin potentiates cholesterol-lowering effects of phytosterols in hypercholesterolaemic individuals. A randomised controlled trial.
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- 02 · compound
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- 03 · endpoint
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- 04 · null
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curcuminEvery finding here is a null result.
What did not
1 findingHow to read these marks →curcumin — no detected effect on HDL cholesterol
very limitedFindingNull resultreplicated ×8
“Plasma HDL-cholesterol and TG concentrations remained unchanged across all groups.”
Quoted verbatim from Curcumin potentiates cholesterol-lowering effects of phytosterols in hypercholesterolaemic individuals. A randomised controlled trial. - Study
- RCT
- Duration
- 4 weeks
- Dose studied
- 200 mg/day
- Population
- hypercholesterolaemic adults; 2×2 factorial trial (placebo, phytosterols 2 g/d, curcumin 200 mg/d, or phytosterols+curcumin combined), result reported across all four trial arms
Study record
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- curcumin
- Design
- randomised controlled trial
- Species
- human
- Population
- hypercholesterolaemic adults, mean fasting TC 6.57 ± 0.13 mmol/L
- Participants
- 70
- Comparator
- placebo
- Duration
- 28 days
- Endpoints measured
- 7
- Record
- extracted
- Readings recorded
- 2