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apanese cooking oil helps cut cholesterol
29/11/2004 - A novel cooking oil further lowers cholesterol in people on cholesterol-lowering medication and could offer a safer alternative to increasing drug dosages, suggests new research.
Researchers at Japanese firm Kao’s Health Care Products laboratories found that by replacing conventional cooking oil with diacylglycerol (DAG) oil enriched with 4 per cent plant sterols, the blood cholesterol levels of patients taking the drug pravastatin further decreased.
They also found no adverse effects caused by simultaneous use of the oil and pravastatin.
Reporting at the American Heart Association’s scientific sessions earlier this month, the researchers said 44 subjects with mild to moderate hypercholesteromia consumed the sterol-enriched DAG oil instead of ordinary cooking oil at home during 12 weeks, while maintaining a daily dosage of 10mg of pravastatin.
This simultaneous use of pravastatin and the oil significantly lowered the concentrations of total and LDL cholesterols by approximately 5 per cent on average from the baseline values.
This cholesterol-lowering effect is equal to a doubling of the pravastatin dosage, they said.
In addition, for subjects with increased dietary cholesterol absorption, LDL cholesterol concentration was further lowered by approximately 10 per cent. Read More...
Japanese cooking oil helps cut cholesterol
apanese cooking oil helps cut cholesterol
29/11/2004 - A novel cooking oil further lowers cholesterol in people on cholesterol-lowering medication and could offer a safer alternative to increasing drug dosages, suggests new research.
Researchers at Japanese firm Kao’s Health Care Products laboratories found that by replacing conventional cooking oil with diacylglycerol (DAG) oil enriched with 4 per cent plant sterols, the blood cholesterol levels of patients taking the drug pravastatin further decreased.
They also found no adverse effects caused by simultaneous use of the oil and pravastatin.
Reporting at the American Heart Association’s scientific sessions earlier this month, the researchers said 44 subjects with mild to moderate hypercholesteromia consumed the sterol-enriched DAG oil instead of ordinary cooking oil at home during 12 weeks, while maintaining a daily dosage of 10mg of pravastatin.
This simultaneous use of pravastatin and the oil significantly lowered the concentrations of total and LDL cholesterols by approximately 5 per cent on average from the baseline values.
This cholesterol-lowering effect is equal to a doubling of the pravastatin dosage, they said.
In addition, for subjects with increased dietary cholesterol absorption, LDL cholesterol concentration was further lowered by approximately 10 per cent. Read More...
Japanese cooking oil helps cut cholesterol
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