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Nutraceutical in Cardiovascular Primary Prevention

NCT03216811 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 52

Last updated 2017-12-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Nutraceuticals have attracted interest as possible approach to be associated with lifestyle changes for lowering plasma cholesterol levels in patients with moderate hypercholesterolemia. Ruscica and colleagues showed that a 8-weeks treatment with a nutraceutical combination containing red yeast rice extract, berberine, policosanol, astaxanthin, coenzyme Q10, and folic acid was able to reduce significantly total cholesterol (-12.8%) and low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (-21.1%) \[11\]. These nutraceutical compounds exert their lipid-lowering effect through different ways, like the inhibition of the hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A (CoA) enzyme, increasing the hepatic expression of low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor and the LDL degradation via enhanced hepatic binding and internalization. In addition, they up regulate the numbers and function of circulating endothelial progenitor cells increasing nitric oxide (NO) production. The purpose of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of CARDIOVIS COLESTEROLO 3 mg (containing red rice fermented with Monascus purpureus titrated with 3% monacolin K, hydrol mixture of olive fruit titrated with vitamin E, Coenzyme Q10 and polymethoxyflavones) in terms of cholesterol, endothelial and inflammatory parameters reduction.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

nutraceutical

8-week administration of nutraceutical compound

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital of Ferrara

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Paolo Cimaglia, Dr · University Hospital of Ferrara

  • Francesco Vitali, Dr · University Hospital of Ferrara

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-07-20
Primary Completion
2017-10-31
Completion
2017-12-02

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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