SynthesisJournal of the American Heart Association2017
Effect of Plant Protein on Blood Lipids: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Synthesis in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 61 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Effect of Substituting Plant Protein for Animal-Protein on Cardiometabolic Risk: A Series of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Controlled Feeding Trials to Provide Evidence-Based Guidance for Nutrition Guidelines Development
Effect of a Customised Lifestyle Medicine Strategy on Lowering Blood Lipid Levels in Indian Physicians
Who cites it
61 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 129 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Long-term effects of plant vs. animal protein supplementation on body composition, muscle strength, physical performance, and cardiometabolic risk factors in adults:a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
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- Impact of Quantity and Type of Dietary Protein on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Using Standard and Network Meta-analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials.Nutrition reviews · 2025Pooled it
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- The Impact of High Protein Diets on Cardiovascular Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- Nordic dietary patterns and cardiometabolic outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies and randomised controlled trials.Diabetologia · 2022Pooled it
- The Isocaloric Substitution of Plant-Based and Animal-Based Protein in Relation to Aging-Related Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of the Association Between Vegan Diets and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease.The Journal of nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- The Association of Plant-Based Diet With Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Prospect Cohort Studies.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of plant protein and animal protein on lipid profile, body weight and body mass index on patients with hypercholesterolemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Acta diabetologica · 2020Pooled it
- Relation of Vegetarian Dietary Patterns With Major Cardiovascular Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2019Pooled it
- Trial
- Dietary climate impact correlates ambiguously with health biomarkers- a randomised controlled trial in healthy Finnish adults.European journal of nutrition · 2025Trial
- The effects of substituting red and processed meat for mycoprotein on biomarkers of cardiovascular risk in healthy volunteers: an analysis of secondary endpoints from Mycomeat.European journal of nutrition · 2023Trial
- Cardiometabolic Effects of Omnivorous vs Vegan Diets in Identical Twins: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
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- Effects of red meat, white meat, and nonmeat protein sources on atherogenic lipoprotein measures in the context of low compared with high saturated fat intake: a randomized controlled trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2019Trial
- Effects of Dietary Protein Quantity, Source, and Type on Plasma Lipids and Lipoproteins and Their Roles in Dyslipidemia Management in Humans.Nutrients · 2026Review
- The association between dietary protein intake and metabolic syndrome: a GRADE-assessed systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2025Review
1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
11 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThere is a heightened interest in plant-based diets for cardiovascular disease prevention. Although plant protein is thought to mediate such prevention through modifying blood lipids, the effect of plant protein in specific substitution for animal protein on blood lipids remains unclear. To assess the effect of this substitution on established lipid targets for cardiovascular risk reduction, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation system. METHODS AND
resultsMEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Registry were searched through September 9, 2017. We included randomized controlled trials of ≥3 weeks comparing the effect of plant protein in substitution for animal protein on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and apolipoprotein B. Two independent reviewers extracted relevant data and assessed risk of bias. Data were pooled by the generic inverse variance method and expressed as mean differences with 95% confidence intervals. Heterogeneity was assessed (Cochran Q statistic) and quantified (I
conclusionsSubstitution of plant protein for animal protein decreases the established lipid targets low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and apolipoprotein B. More high-quality randomized trials are needed to improve our estimates. CLINICAL
trial registrationURL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT02037321.
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