Lemon Balm and Reduced Blood Cholesterol

• Effects of Melissa officinalis (Lemon Balm) on cardio-metabolic outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2020-07-02
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Phytotherapy research : PTR 34(12)
  • • Javad Heshmati
    • Mojgan Morvaridzadeh
    • Mahdi Sepidarkish
    • Siavash Fazelian
    • Mehran Rahimlou
    • Amirhossein Omidi
    • Andriko Palmowski
    • Akbar Asadi
    • Farzad Shidfar

  • PubMed: 32614129
  • DOI: 10.1002/ptr.6744

  9 Insights on

  • Reduced Blood Cholesterol

  • High evidence

  MO intake was associated with a reduced total cholesterol (TC) (SMD: -0.26; 95% CI: -0.52, -0.01; I² = 13.7%; k = 6)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes