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Plant sterols: factors affecting their efficacy and safety as functional food ingredients.

Berger A, Jones PJ, Abumweis SS.

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Impact of quality of dietary fat on serum cholesterol and coronary heart disease: focus on plant sterols and other non-glyceride components.

Ghafoorunissa.

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Low-fat formulations of plant stanols and sterols.

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Plant sterols and stanols.

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Plant sterol ester-enriched milk and yoghurt effectively reduce serum cholesterol in modestly hypercholesterolemic subjects.

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Phytosterols and human lipid metabolism: efficacy, safety, and novel foods.

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Intake of a single morning dose of standard and novel plant sterol preparations for 4 weeks does not dramatically affect plasma lipid concentrations in humans.

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Safety aspects and cholesterol-lowering efficacy of low fat dairy products containing plant sterols.

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Cholesterol-lowering efficacy of plant sterols in low-fat yogurt consumed as a snack or with a meal.

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Efficacy of plant sterols is not influenced by dietary cholesterol intake in hypercholesterolemic individuals.

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Inverse relation between dietary intake of naturally occurring plant sterols and serum cholesterol in northern Sweden.

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Plant sterols/stanols as cholesterol lowering agents: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

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Plant stanol and sterol esters in the control of blood cholesterol levels: mechanism and safety aspects.

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