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SUBMITTER: Lee BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4912751 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Bor-Jen BJ Lin Jun-Shuo JS Lin Yi-Chin YC Lin Ping-Ting PT
Lipids in health and disease 20160617
<h4>Background</h4>L-carnitine (LC) plays an important physiologic role in lipid metabolism. To date, no clinical study has been performed to examine the effect of LC supplementation on the lipid status of coronary artery disease (CAD) patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the lipid lowering effects of LC supplementation (1000 mg/d) in CAD patients.<h4>Methods</h4>CAD patients were identified by cardiac catheterization as having at least 50 % stenosis of one major coronary artery. F ...[more]