Health Benefits of Plant Sterols
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemicals and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 September 2020) | Viewed by 6114
Special Issue Editor
2. NIC&R—Neuro-Immune Connect & Repair, BIOMED—Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
Interests: plant sterols; central nervous system; inflammation; cholesterol; cognition; multiple sclerosis; Alzheimer’s disease; repair
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Current evidence indicates that food matrices with added plant sterols or stanols can lower serum levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Interestingly, plant sterols and plant stanols show health benefits beyond the cholesterol lowering effect, such as modulation of inflammation and cognitive processes. Nutritional plant sterols and plant stanols are mainly linked to processes in health but are exceptionally also linked to disease. Currently, plant sterols and plant stanols are applied as food-additives to the diet and as add-on treatment to drugs. Interestingly, different classes of responders to plant sterol-enriched diets are encountered. To cope with the responder effect, personalized treatment regimens are gaining attention. To reproducibly detect plant sterols and plant stanols and their metabolites in biological tissues, methodological challenges are encountered in reliably quantifying these sterols. Consequently, novel technical advances are explored to achieve reproducible interlaboratory quantification protocols. Although plant sterols and stanols continue to offer an efficacious and convenient dietary approach to cholesterol management, long-term clinical trials investigating the endpoints of cardiovascular disease are still lacking.
Dr. Tim Vanmierlo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Plant sterol
- Plant stanol
- Phytosterol
- Cholesterol
- Lipoprotein
- Inflammation
- Health
- Disease
- Nutrition
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