Effect of a palm-oil-vitamin E concentrate on the serum and lipoprotein lipids in humans - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1991 Apr;53(4 Suppl):1027S-1030S.

doi: 10.1093/ajcn/53.4.1027S.

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Effect of a palm-oil-vitamin E concentrate on the serum and lipoprotein lipids in humans

D T Tan et al. Am J Clin Nutr. 1991 Apr.

Abstract

The effect of a capsulated palm-oil-vitamin E concentrate (palmvitee) on human serum and lipoprotein lipids was assessed. Each palmvitee capsule contains approximately 18, approximately 42, and approximately 240 mg of tocopherols, tocotrienols, and palm olein, respectively. All volunteers took one palmvitee capsule per day for 30 consecutive days. Overnight fasting blood was taken from each volunteer before and after the experiment. Serum lipids and lipoproteins were analyzed by using the enzymatic CHOD-PAP method. Our results showed that palmvitee lowered both serum total cholesterol (TC) and low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) concentrations in all the volunteers. The magnitude of reduction of serum TC ranged from 5.0% to 35.9% whereas the reduction of LDL-C values ranged from 0.9% to 37.0% when compared with their respective starting values. The effect of palmvitee on triglycerides (TGs) and HDL-C was not consistent. Our results show that the palmvitee has a hypocholesterolemic effect.

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