Black Cohosh and Increased HDL Cholesterol Levels

• The effects of black cohosh therapies on lipids, fibrinogen, glucose and insulin.

  • 2007-06
  • RCT · n = 310
  • Maturitas 57(2)
  • • Leslie Spangler
    • Katherine M Newton
    • Louis C Grothaus
    • Susan D Reed
    • Kelly Ehrlich
    • Andrea Z LaCroix

  • PubMed: 17275226
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2007.01.002

  7 Insights on

  • Increased HDL Cholesterol Levels

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Clinical

  There were no statistically significant differences in the adjusted mean change from baseline to 3 months between the herbal groups and placebo in ... HDL

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  160 mg daily