Effect of Probiotic from Different Sources on Lipid Profile and Sugar on Patients with Hypercholesterolemia

Abstract

For managing the digestive tract and immune system, probiotic has been recommended more frequently as an effective therapy and are known as the agent of cholesterol-lowering. The definition of hypercholesterolemia is, increase of plasma cholesterol levels excessively above 200 mg/dL, the patients may have a strong risk to cardiovascular disease. The aims of this study is used different types of probiotic sources of treating patients with hypercholesterolemia with no cardiovascular disease for 30 days. The results show that, there are significant differences (p < 0.05) between cholesterol, Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and High-density lipoprotein (HDL) before and after the consumption of probiotics from different sources, while triglyceride and glucose show there are no significant differences after 30 days (p > 0.05).