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Dietary Almonds Increase Serum Hdl Cholesterol In Coronary Artery Disease Patients In A Randomized Controlled Trial., Humaira Jamshed, Fateh Ali Tipoo Sultan, Romaina Iqbal, Anwar Gilani
Dietary Almonds Increase Serum Hdl Cholesterol In Coronary Artery Disease Patients In A Randomized Controlled Trial., Humaira Jamshed, Fateh Ali Tipoo Sultan, Romaina Iqbal, Anwar Gilani
Section of Cardiology
Background: More than one-half of coronary artery disease (CAD) patients have low HDL cholesterol despite having well-managed LDL cholesterol. Almond supplementation has not been shown to elevate circulating HDL cholesterol concentrations in clinical trials, perhaps because the baseline HDL cholesterol of trial subjects was not low.
Objective: This clinical trial was designed to test the effect of almond supplementation on low HDL cholesterol in CAD patients.
Methods: A total of 150 CAD patients (50 per group), with serum LDL cholesterol ≤100 mg/dL and HDL cholesterol ≤40 mg/dL in men and ≤50 mg/dL in women, were recruited from the Aga Khan …