Clinical trials: Cholesterol Absorption Inhibition
Cholesterol Absorption Inhibition
Cholesterol Absorption Inhibition Study
Rationale: Consuming Plant Sterols (PS) fortified foods is widely accepted as easy to apply, life-style change to combat modestly elevated plasma cholesterol concentrations.
- Trial name
- CASTELL (NCT01138787)
- Testing
- Reference spread, Test spread
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Unilever R&D
Metabolic Syndrome X
Effects of Selective Inhibition of Cholesterol Absorption With Ezetimibe on Intestinal Cholesterol Homeostasis in Dyslipidemic Men With Insulin-resistance - a Pilot Study
Ezetimibe has been shown to inhibit cholesterol absorption and several lines of evidence from in vitro systems and animal models suggest that this effect is associated with an increase in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor…
- Trial name
- EZEmRNA (NCT01849068)
- Testing
- Ezetimibe
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Laval University