Effects of Stopping to Eat Eggs and Drink Milk in Japanese with Hypercholesterolemia

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The number of people with hypercholesterolemia is increasing in Japan. It has been known by experience at health checks that the total cholesterol levels of persons with hypercholes-terolemia decrease when they stop to eat eggs and drink milk. A comparison was conducted on the levels of total cholesterol and triglyceride according to the condition of taking eggs and milk, mostly of those who stopped to take them for more than a week. Those were 78 subjects, 65 subjects who stopped to take them, 7 subjects who continued to take them and 6 subjects who did not take them. The total cholesterol levels of 65 subjects decreased by 32±6.4 mg/dl of the 95% confidence interval, and also decreased by 29±6.0 mg/dl of it without 21 subjects who took cholesterol-lowering drugs after stopping to take eggs and milk. The levels of total cholesterol of 7 subjects and 6 subjects did not change significantly. Hypercholesterolemia is influenced by dietary cholesterol typically by taking eggs and milk in many Japanese.