Whey Protein and Reduced LDL Cholesterol Level

• The effects of whey protein supplementation on indices of cardiometabolic health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

  • 2025-01
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) 44
  • • Konstantinos Prokopidis
    • Paul T Morgan
    • Nicola Veronese
    • Jordi Morwani-Mangnani
    • Konstantinos K Triantafyllidis
    • Konstantinos S Kechagias
    • Justin Roberts
    • Christopher Hurst
    • Emma Stevenson
    • Dimitris Vlachopoulos
    • Oliver C Witard

  • PubMed: 39647241
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2024.12.003

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced LDL Cholesterol Level

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  Whey protein supplementation had no effect on HDL-cholesterol concentration but did elicit a reduction in LDL-cholesterol in individuals aged <50 years (P < 0.01) and when combined with exercise (MD: -5.38, 95 % confidence interval (95 % CI): -8.87 to -1.88, I2 = 0 %, P < 0.01).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes