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Cholesterol
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 824813, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/824813
Clinical Study

Influence of Soy Lecithin Administration on Hypercholesterolemia

Amouni Mohamed Mourad,1,2,3 Eder de Carvalho Pincinato,3 Priscila Gava Mazzola,4 Maricene Sabha,4 and Patricia Moriel4

1Department of Pharmacy, Camilo Castelo Branco University, Rua Carolina Fonseca 584-Itaquera, 08230-030 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2Department of Pharmacy, Santo Amaro University, R Isabel Schmidt 339, 04743-030 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
3Health and Biological Sciences Department, Mackenzie Presbiterian University, Rua da Consolação 896, Campus São Paulo, 01302-907 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
4Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas (FCM-Unicamp), Rua Tessália Vieira de Camargo 126, Campinas-São Paulo, P.O. Box 6111, 13083-970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Received 24 July 2009; Accepted 4 October 2009

Academic Editor: W. Gibson Wood

Copyright © 2010 Amouni Mohamed Mourad et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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