{"id":3863,"date":"2022-09-13T10:57:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/catechin-supplementation-associated-with-significant-reduction-in-ldl-cholesterol-levels\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:57:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:36","slug":"catechin-supplementation-associated-with-significant-reduction-in-ldl-cholesterol-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/catechin-supplementation-associated-with-significant-reduction-in-ldl-cholesterol-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Catechin supplementation associated with significant reduction in LDL cholesterol levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>In another large randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial, which involved several American universities, the influence of green tea extracts (catechins) was investigated. The study participants were all postmenopausal women, with 936 of them completing the one-year trial. Compared to the control group, catechin supplementation was associated with a significant reduction in total and LDL cholesterol levels (P = 0.0004 and P < 0.0001 respectively). Further details can be found in the study.\n\n\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Hamed Samavat, April R Newman, Renwei Wang, Jian-Min Yuan, Anna H Wu, Mindy S Kurzer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/27806972\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary In another large randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial, which involved several American universities, the influence of green tea extracts (catechins) was investigated. The study participants were all postmenopausal women, with 936 of them completing the one-year trial. Compared to the control group, catechin supplementation was associated with a significant reduction in total and LDL cholesterol&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6273,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions\/6273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}