Pine and Reduced LDL Cholesterol

• Does supplementation with pine bark extract improve cardiometabolic risk factors? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2025-02-22
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 685
  • BMC complementary medicine and therapies 25(1)
  • • Shooka Mohammadi
    • Tamas Fulop
    • Abdelouahed Khalil
    • Sara Ebrahimi
    • Motahareh Hasani
    • Somayeh Ziaei
    • Farnaz Farsi
    • Elham Mirtaheri
    • Mostafa Afsharianfar
    • Javad Heshmati

  • PubMed: 39987124
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12906-025-04819-9

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced LDL Cholesterol

  • High evidence

  low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (WMD: -5.07 mg/dL, 95% CI: -9.21, -0.94; P = 0.016)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes