Psyllium Seed and Reduced Atherogenic Index

• Cholesterol-lowering effects of psyllium seed associated with urea metabolism.

  • 1998
  • Clinical Trial
  • Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin 21(2)
  • • K Segawa
    • T Kataoka
    • Y Fukuo

  • PubMed: 9514618
  • DOI: 10.1248/bpb.21.184

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced Atherogenic Index

  • Moderate evidence
  • Clinical

  the serum total cholesterol, low-density-lipoprotein-cholesterol and atherogenic index significantly decreased

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes