ArticleCholesterol2011
The Effects of Very-Low-Calorie Diets on HDL: A Review.
Article in Cholesterol, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Review
- Tirzepatide and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in obesity: a real-world multicenter study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- A Single Arm Pilot Observational Study to Evaluate the Safety and Feasibility of a Pre-Operative Very Low Calorie Diet in Severely Obese Patients With Endometrial Cancer.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Observational
- Effects of short-term very low-calorie diet on metabolic profile in patients with metabolic syndrome.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- The Impact of Weight Loss on Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, and Mitochondrial Function in Subjects with Obesity.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Comparison of a pre-bariatric surgery very low-calorie ketogenic diet and the Mediterranean diet effects on weight loss, metabolic parameters, and liver size reduction.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Clinical application of intermittent fasting for weight loss: progress and future directions.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2022Review
- Fasting-Mimicking Diet Reduces Trimethylamine N-Oxide Levels and Improves Serum Biochemical Parameters in Healthy Volunteers.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Effect of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass on Lipoprotein Metabolism and Markers of HDL Functionality in Morbid Obese Patients.Obesity surgery · 2021Article
- Nuts and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2018Review
- Metabolic and structural bone disturbances induced by hyperlipidic diet in mice treated with simvastatin.International journal of experimental pathology · 2015Article
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
This paper investigates the effects of very-low-calorie diets (VLCDs) used in the treatment of obesity on high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels. Although the studies varied widely in their intervention format, duration, and baseline HDL levels, it would appear that HDL levels usually decrease during active weight loss using a VLCD, but these either return to pre-VLCD levels or improve overall during the weight-maintenance phase. More research needs to be done to determine optimal weight-maintenance programmes and the effects of VLCDs in the short term as well as on HDL levels in groups at increased risk of coronary heart disease.
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