Almonds Have a Neutral Effect on Serum Lipid Profiles: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials

An almond-enriched diet increases plasma α-tocopherol and improves vascular function but does not affect oxidative stress markers or lipid levels

“…A meta-analysis of dietary almond interventions concluded that the present randomized trials do not support almond ingestion for any lipid modifying effects [15]. However, dietary intervention with almonds has improved markers of insulin sensitivity in adults with prediabetes [16].…”

Statins and almonds to lower lipoproteins (the STALL Study)

“…17 Our study also demonstrated that adding almonds to statin therapy produced favorable trends in LDL-C and TG. Several other studies have shown significant decreases in LDL-C with the addition of varying amounts of almonds, [9][10][11]13,14,[22][23][24][25] and a meta-analysis by Phung et al reported that almonds strongly trend toward significantly lowering LDL-C. 26 However, to our knowledge, none of these studies focused on subjects already taking statin therapy. In addition, subjects in the present study had a mean baseline LDL-C of 102 6 23 mg/dL.…”

Effects of different forms of hazelnuts on blood lipids and α-tocopherol concentrations in mildly hypercholesterolemic individuals

“…Both epidemiological studies (Fraser et al, 1992;Kushi et al, 1996;Albert et al, 2002;Hu and Willett, 2002) and clinical trials (Kris-Etherton et al, 1999a;Rajaram et al, 2001;Sabate et al, 2003;Gebauer et al, 2008;Griel et al, 2008;Banel and Hu, 2009;Phung et al, 2009;Torabian et al, 2010) have consistently shown that nuts can have an important role in the management of plasma lipids, and reduce CVD morbidity and mortality. The American Heart Association recommends the consumption of nuts as a means of replacing saturated fat with unsaturated fats (Krauss et al, 2000).…”

“…Although numerous clinical studies and reviews have consistently shown the hypocholesterolemic effects of several nuts, such as almonds (Sabate et al, 2003;Phung et al, 2009), macadamia nuts (Griel et al, 2008), peanuts (Kris-Etherton et al, 1999a), pecans (Rajaram et al, 2001), pistachio nuts (Gebauer et al, 2008) and walnuts (Banel and Hu, 2009;Torabian et al, 2010), few studies have investigated hazelnuts. To date, only three short-term intervention trials have assessed the effects of hazelnut supplementation on blood lipids (Alphan et al, 1997;Durak et al, 1999;Mercanligil et al, 2007).…”