Cholesterol lowering effect of a soy drink enriched with plant sterols in a French population with moderate hypercholesterolemia

Table 2 Serum lipid concentrations at baseline and at week 4 and week 8¹

	Control soy drink	Soy drink enriched with plant sterols
Total cholesterol (mmol/l)
Baseline (V0)	6.24 ± 0.77	6.42 ± 0.68
Week 4 (V2)	6.12 ± 0.64	6.10 ± 0.64^a
Week 8 (V3)	6.16 ± 0.79	6.16 ± 0.79^a
Change (%) between V2 and V0	-1.34	-4.76
Change (%) between V3 and V0	-1.05	-3.91^b
LDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)
Baseline (V0)	4.10 ± 0.64	4.21 ± 0.64
Week 4 (V2)	4.00 ± 0.74	3.89 ± 0.44^a
Week 8 (V3)	4.09 ± 0.73	3.92 ± 0.61^a
Change (%) between V2 and V0	-1.91	-7.15
Change (%) between V3 and V0	+0.84	-6.76^b
Non-HDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)
Baseline (V0)	4.67 ± 0.70	4.81 ± 0.57
Week 4 (V2)	4.58 ± 0.76	4.46 ± 0.56^a
Week 8 (V3)	4.61 ± 0.78	4.50 ± 0.76^a
Change (%) between V2 and V0	-1.31	-6.95^b
Change (%) between V3 and V0	-0.22	-6.38^b
HDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)
Baseline (V0)	1.57 ± 0.33	1.61 ± 0.38
Week 4 (V2)	1.55 ± 0.35	1.64 ± 0.44
Week 8 (V3)	1.53 ± 0.35	1.66 ± 0.45
Change (%) between V2 and V0	-0.52	+1.92
Change (%) between V3 and V0	-1.69	+3.07
Triglyceride (mmol/l)
Baseline (V0)	1.23 ± 1.29	1.29 ± 0.48
Week 4 (V2)	1.25 ± 0.73	1.24 ± 0.57
Week 8 (V3)	1.12 ± 0.49	1.27 ± 0.62
Change (%) between V2 and V0	+0.76	-2.33
Change (%) between V3 and V0	-5.35	+0.09

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