L-Carnitine and Increased HDL Cholesterol Levels

• The effect of L-carnitine supplementation on lipid profile in adults: an umbrella meta-analysis on interventional meta-analyses.

  • 2023-09-04
  • Systematic Review
  • Frontiers in nutrition 10
  • • Vali Musazadeh
    • Hanie Alinejad
    • Niloofar Kouhi Esfahani
    • Zeynab Kavyani
    • Majid Keramati
    • Neda Roshanravan
    • Erfan Mosharkesh
    • Parvin Dehghan

  • PubMed: 37727632
  • DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1214734

  4 Insights on

  • Increased HDL Cholesterol Levels

  • High evidence

  Increased high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C) (ES: 0.66 mg/dL, 95% CI: 0.20, 1.12, p = 0.005)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  more than 2 g/day