Perilla and Improved Peak Expiratory Flow

• Effects of perilla seed oil supplementation on leukotriene generation by leucocytes in patients with asthma associated with lipometabolism.

  • 2000
  • Clinical Trial
  • International archives of allergy and immunology 122(2)
  • • M Okamoto
    • F Mitsunobu
    • K Ashida
    • T Mifune
    • Y Hosaki
    • H Tsugeno
    • S Harada
    • Y Tanizaki
    • M Kataoka
    • K Niiya
    • M Harada

  • PubMed: 10878492
  • DOI: 10.1159/000024369

  7 Insights on

  • Improved Peak Expiratory Flow

  • Moderate evidence
  • Clinical

  Ventilatory parameters such as peak expiratory flow (PEF) ... increased significantly after 4 weeks of dietary supplementation in group A (p < 0.05)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  dietary supplementation (amount not specified)