Published in Am J Clin Nutr on January 01, 2003
Plant sterols: factors affecting their efficacy and safety as functional food ingredients. Lipids Health Dis (2004) 1.08
Plasma plant sterol levels do not reflect cholesterol absorption in children with Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. J Pediatr (2008) 0.78
Limitations of plasma plant sterols as indicators of cholesterol absorption. Am J Clin Nutr (2004) 0.75
Lifestyle intervention with weight reduction: first-line treatment in mild obstructive sleep apnea. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2008) 3.80
Endothelial function is well preserved in obese patients with mild obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep Breath (2013) 2.67
Early prednisone therapy in Henoch-Schönlein purpura: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. J Pediatr (2006) 2.33
High intestinal cholesterol absorption is associated with cardiovascular disease and risk alleles in ABCG8 and ABO: evidence from the LURIC and YFS cohorts and from a meta-analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol (2013) 2.15
Probiotics prevent IgE-associated allergy until age 5 years in cesarean-delivered children but not in the total cohort. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2009) 1.80
Effect of short-term carbohydrate overfeeding and long-term weight loss on liver fat in overweight humans. Am J Clin Nutr (2012) 1.80
Low cholesterol, mortality, and quality of life in old age during a 39-year follow-up. J Am Coll Cardiol (2004) 1.74
Long-term safety and impact on infection rates of postnatal probiotic and prebiotic (synbiotic) treatment: randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Pediatrics (2008) 1.74
Diabetes contributes to cholesterol metabolism regardless of obesity. Diabetes Care (2002) 1.71
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of pravastatin in pediatric and adolescent cardiac transplant recipients on a regimen of triple immunosuppression. Clin Pharmacol Ther (2004) 1.68
Sustained improvement in mild obstructive sleep apnea after a diet- and physical activity-based lifestyle intervention: postinterventional follow-up. Am J Clin Nutr (2010) 1.67
Probiotics and prebiotic galacto-oligosaccharides in the prevention of allergic diseases: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2006) 1.66
The effect of smoking in midlife on health-related quality of life in old age: a 26-year prospective study. Arch Intern Med (2008) 1.63
Plant sterols in serum and in atherosclerotic plaques of patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy. J Am Coll Cardiol (2005) 1.54
Physical activity at midlife and health-related quality of life in older men. Arch Intern Med (2010) 1.53
Telomere length in old age and cholesterol across the life course. J Am Geriatr Soc (2011) 1.50
A follow-up study of nutrient intake, nutritional status, and growth in infants with cow milk allergy fed either a soy formula or an extensively hydrolyzed whey formula. Am J Clin Nutr (2005) 1.49
Effects of plant stanol and sterol esters on serum phytosterols in a family with familial hypercholesterolemia including a homozygous subject. J Lab Clin Med (2004) 1.45
Alcoholic beverage preference, 29-year mortality, and quality of life in men in old age. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2007) 1.42
Cholesterol absorption and synthesis in pediatric kidney, liver, and heart transplant recipients. Transplantation (2006) 1.41
Low HDL-C predicts the onset of transplant vasculopathy in pediatric cardiac recipients on pravastatin therapy. Pediatr Transplant (2007) 1.38
Measurement of peptide-specific IgE as an additional tool in identifying patients with clinical reactivity to peanuts. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2003) 1.35
Explaining the obesity paradox: cardiovascular risk, weight change, and mortality during long-term follow-up in men. Eur Heart J (2009) 1.32
Triacylglycerol fatty acid composition in diet-induced weight loss in subjects with abnormal glucose metabolism--the GENOBIN study. PLoS One (2008) 1.31
Insulin resistance is associated with increased cholesterol synthesis and decreased cholesterol absorption in normoglycemic men. J Lipid Res (2003) 1.27
The common variant in the FTO gene did not modify the effect of lifestyle changes on body weight: the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2009) 1.26
Allergy to soy formula and to extensively hydrolyzed whey formula in infants with cow's milk allergy: a prospective, randomized study with a follow-up to the age of 2 years. J Pediatr (2002) 1.21
Association of telomere length in older men with mortality and midlife body mass index and smoking. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2011) 1.14
Serum interleukin 1 receptor antagonist as an independent marker of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in humans. J Hepatol (2011) 1.14
Long-term results, late complications and quality of life in a series of adjustable gastric banding. Obes Surg (2004) 1.13
Serum noncholesterol sterols during inhibition of cholesterol synthesis by statins. J Lab Clin Med (2003) 1.12
Effect of ezetimibe and/or simvastatin on coenzyme Q10 levels in plasma: a randomised trial. Drug Saf (2006) 1.12
Adipose tissue TCF7L2 splicing is regulated by weight loss and associates with glucose and fatty acid metabolism. Diabetes (2012) 1.10
Whole grain products, fish and bilberries alter glucose and lipid metabolism in a randomized, controlled trial: the Sysdimet study. PLoS One (2011) 1.08
Cholesterol synthesis is increased and absorption decreased in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease independent of obesity. J Hepatol (2010) 1.08
Metabolic syndrome and the progression of carotid intima-media thickness in elderly women. Arch Intern Med (2006) 1.08
Inheritance of cholesterol metabolism of probands with high or low cholesterol absorption. J Lipid Res (2002) 1.07
Bilberries reduce low-grade inflammation in individuals with features of metabolic syndrome. Mol Nutr Food Res (2012) 1.04
Prediction of the development of tolerance to milk in children with cow's milk hypersensitivity. J Pediatr (2004) 1.04
Effects of ezetimibe and/or simvastatin on LDL receptor protein expression and on LDL receptor and HMG-CoA reductase gene expression: a randomized trial in healthy men. Atherosclerosis (2007) 1.03
Serum high sensitivity C-reactive protein and cognitive function in elderly women. Age Ageing (2007) 1.03
Increased exposure to estrogens disturbs maturation, steroidogenesis, and cholesterol homeostasis via estrogen receptor alpha in adult mouse Leydig cells. Endocrinology (2009) 1.01
The activation of the inflammatory cytokines in overweight patients with mild obstructive sleep apnoea. J Sleep Res (2009) 0.99
C-reactive protein and metabolic syndrome in elderly women: a 12-year follow-up study. Diabetes Care (2006) 0.99
Weight reduction and increased physical activity to prevent the progression of obstructive sleep apnea: A 4-year observational postintervention follow-up of a randomized clinical trial. [corrected]. JAMA Intern Med (2013) 0.99
Cholesterol absorption decreases after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass but not after gastric banding. Metabolism (2009) 0.99
The validity of serum squalene and non-cholesterol sterols as surrogate markers of cholesterol synthesis and absorption in type 2 diabetes. Atherosclerosis (2007) 0.98
Parenteral plant sterols and intestinal failure-associated liver disease in neonates. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr (2012) 0.97
Isolated diastolic hypertension, pulse pressure, and mean arterial pressure as predictors of mortality during a follow-up of up to 32 years. J Hypertens (2002) 0.97
Polymorphisms in the ABCG5 and ABCG8 genes associate with cholesterol absorption and insulin sensitivity. J Lipid Res (2004) 0.96
Liver transplantation in a patient with sitosterolemia and cirrhosis. Gastroenterology (2006) 0.95
Fatty fish intake decreases lipids related to inflammation and insulin signaling--a lipidomics approach. PLoS One (2009) 0.95
A follow-up study found that cardiovascular risk in middle age predicted mortality and quality of life in old age. J Clin Epidemiol (2004) 0.94
Cholesterol metabolism in type 1 diabetes. Diabetes (2004) 0.94
Ineffective decrease of serum cholesterol by simvastatin in a subgroup of hypercholesterolemic coronary patients. Atherosclerosis (2002) 0.94
Probiotic effects on faecal inflammatory markers and on faecal IgA in food allergic atopic eczema/dermatitis syndrome infants. Pediatr Allergy Immunol (2005) 0.92
Micellar distribution of cholesterol and phytosterols after duodenal plant stanol ester infusion. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol (2002) 0.92
Effect of weight loss on cytokine messenger RNA expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of obese subjects with the metabolic syndrome. Metabolism (2008) 0.91
Serum plant and other noncholesterol sterols, cholesterol metabolism and 22-year mortality among middle-aged men. Atherosclerosis (2009) 0.91
Leucocytes in human milk and lymphocyte subsets in cow's milk-allergic infants. Pediatr Allergy Immunol (2002) 0.90
Cholesterol and glucose metabolism and recurrent cardiovascular events among the elderly: a prospective study. J Am Coll Cardiol (2006) 0.90
Responses of surrogate markers of cholesterol absorption and synthesis to changes in cholesterol metabolism during various amounts of fat and cholesterol feeding among healthy men. Br J Nutr (2007) 0.90
Statins for children with familial hypercholesterolemia. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2010) 0.90
Visceral obesity is associated with high levels of serum squalene. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2006) 0.90
Long-term consumption of plant stanol and sterol esters, vascular function and genetic regulation. Br J Nutr (2008) 0.90
Cholesterol synthesis prevails over absorption in metabolic syndrome. Transl Res (2007) 0.89
Effects of long-term parenteral nutrition on serum lipids, plant sterols, cholesterol metabolism, and liver histology in pediatric intestinal failure. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr (2011) 0.89
Physical activity in midlife and telomere length measured in old age. Exp Gerontol (2012) 0.89
Identification of sequential IgE-binding epitopes on bovine alpha(s2)-casein in cow's milk allergic patients. Int Arch Allergy Immunol (2002) 0.89
The metabolism of plant sterols is disturbed in postmenopausal women with coronary artery disease. Metabolism (2009) 0.88
Costs of a self-selected, health-promoting diet among the participants of the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study. Diabetes Care (2007) 0.88
Plant stanol and sterol esters in prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Ann Med (2004) 0.88
Gene expression of FTO in human subcutaneous adipose tissue, peripheral blood mononuclear cells and adipocyte cell line. J Nutrigenet Nutrigenomics (2010) 0.87
Postprandial lipemic response and lipoprotein composition in subjects with low or high cholesterol absorption efficiency. Clin Chim Acta (2005) 0.87
Eosinophil cationic protein in human milk is associated with development of cow's milk allergy and atopic eczema in breast-fed infants. Pediatr Res (2003) 0.87
Hydroxysteroid (17beta) dehydrogenase 7 activity is essential for fetal de novo cholesterol synthesis and for neuroectodermal survival and cardiovascular differentiation in early mouse embryos. Endocrinology (2010) 0.86
Insulin sensitivity regulates cholesterol metabolism to a greater extent than obesity: lessons from the METSIM Study. J Lipid Res (2010) 0.86
Non-nutritive bioactive constituents of plants: phytosterols. Int J Vitam Nutr Res (2003) 0.86
Low synthesis and high absorption of cholesterol characterize type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Care (2004) 0.86
Effects of plant stanol esters on serum cholesterol concentrations, relative markers of cholesterol metabolism and endothelial function in type 1 diabetes. Atherosclerosis (2007) 0.86
Accumulation of cholesterol precursors and plant sterols in human stenotic aortic valves. J Lipid Res (2008) 0.86
Very high plant stanol intake and serum plant stanols and non-cholesterol sterols. Eur J Nutr (2009) 0.86
Ileal pouch-anal anastomosis, conventional ileostomy and ileorectal anastomosis modify cholesterol metabolism. Dig Dis Sci (2004) 0.86
Cholesterol absorption and synthesis in children with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Care (2006) 0.86