red yeast rice and Reduced Low-Density Lipoprotein Level

• Red Yeast Rice for the Improvement of Lipid Profiles in Mild-to-Moderate Hypercholesterolemia: A Narrative Review.

  • 2023-05-12
  • Review
  • Nutrients 15(10)
  • • Arrigo F G Cicero
    • Federica Fogacci
    • Anca Pantea Stoian
    • Peter P Toth

  • PubMed: 37242171
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu15102288

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Low-Density Lipoprotein Level

  • Moderate evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Clinical

  RYR supplementation reduces LDL-C levels by approximately 15-34% versus placebo, with a similar effect to low-dose, first-generation statins in subjects with mild-to-moderate dyslipidemia.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  about 3 mg/d of monacolin K