title: [A cholesterol reducing diet is not useful].
abstract: In daily practice a cholesterol-lowering diet with intensive monitoring by dieticians leads to a mean decrease of the serum cholesterol level by 2%. Once the monitoring is discontinued, the serum cholesterol level as a rule returns to baseline. Were it possible to maintain a 5% cholesterol reduction throughout life, occurrence of coronary heart disease would in theory be postponed by one to a few months. In diet studies, with observation lasting from 6 to 15 years, no clear favourable effect on the development of coronary heart disease was demonstrated. Prescription of a cholesterol-reducing diet and referral to a dietician are therefore fairly useless.
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Boot
mesh_terms: D002791:Cholesterol, Dietary; D018849:Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic; D018752:Diet, Fat-Restricted; D006801:Humans; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000178:diet therapy* / Q000517:prevention & control
chemical_list: D002791:Cholesterol, Dietary