{"id":6406,"date":"2022-09-13T10:58:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/phytosterols-improve-cardiovascular-risk-factors\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:58:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:58:34","slug":"phytosterols-improve-cardiovascular-risk-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/phytosterols-improve-cardiovascular-risk-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Phytosterols improve cardiovascular risk factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>This Canadian review aimed to examine the ability of phytosterols \u2013 naturally occurring compounds in plant-based foods \u2013 to reduce risk factors of cardiovascular diseases. Studies showed that phytosterols can improve cholesterol levels. For instance, numerous clinical trials documented that 2 g of phytosterols per day decreases LDL cholesterol by 8\u201310%. Generally, phytosterols were found to have beneficial effects on vascular health, for instance, by improving blood pressure. More details can be found in the review.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Kaur, R. and Myrie, SB.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32557606\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This Canadian review aimed to examine the ability of phytosterols \u2013 naturally occurring compounds in plant-based foods \u2013 to reduce risk factors of cardiovascular diseases. Studies showed that phytosterols can improve cholesterol levels. For instance, numerous clinical trials documented that 2 g of phytosterols per day decreases LDL cholesterol by 8\u201310%. Generally, phytosterols were&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\/6406"}],"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=6406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6512,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}