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“On a diet low in plant steroids and treatment with cholestyramine (up to 32 g daily) the beta-sitosterol concentration fell, but only to 35 mg/dl, because of poor patient compliance.”
Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift • 1991 | View Paper
“These findings demonstrate that neonatal pretreatment with beta-sitosterol plus cholestyramine has detrimental effects on the handling of a cholesterol challenge in adult life, and does not achieve the beneficial effect previously noted with pretreatment with cholestyramine alone.”