Eating oats reduces three markers of cardiovascular risk, finds study

Eating oats is associated with a modest reduction in low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol as well as reducing non-high density lipoprotein (non-HDL) cholesterol and apolipoprotein B, a systematic review and meta-analysis has shown.1

Previous studies have focused on the effect of eating oats on concentrations of LDL cholesterol, but there is growing evidence that non-HDL cholesterol (measured by subtracting total cholesterol from HDL …