Palm oil consumption increases LDL cholesterol compared with vegetable oils low in saturated fat in a meta-analysis of clinical trials

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 145, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1549-1558

  Sun, Ye ^a,d   Neelakantan, Nithya ^a   Wu, Yi ^a   Lote Oke, Rashmi ^a   Pan, An ^a   van Dam, Rob M ^a,b,c,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Diet; HDL; LDL; Lipids; Meta analysis; Nutrition; Triglycerides

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PALM OIL; SATURATED FATTY ACID; VEGETABLE OIL; FAT INTAKE; FATTY ACID; TRANS FATTY ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COCHRANE LIBRARY; DATA EXTRACTION; FAT INTAKE; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID DIET; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; BLOOD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

ANIMALIA;

CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; DIETARY FATS; FATTY ACIDS; HUMANS; PLANT OILS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TRANS FATTY ACIDS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84935497561     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.115.210575     Document Type: Article

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