Whey Protein and Reduced Total Cholesterol

• 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 Total Cholesterol

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  Total cholesterol was reduced with interventions that combined whey protein supplementation and exercise (MD: -8.58, -14.32 to -2.83, I2 = 55 %, P < 0.01), irrespective of age, protein dose, and body mass index ≥25 kg/m2 (MD: -6.71, 95 % CI: -11.60 to -1.83, I2 = 74 %, P < 0.01).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes