• Nutrition · Mar 2015

    Randomized Controlled Trial

    Antiinflammatory effects of L-carnitine supplementation (1000 mg/d) in coronary artery disease patients.

    • Bor-Jen Lee, Jun-Shuo Lin, Yi-Chin Lin, and Ping-Ting Lin.
    • The Intensive Care Unit, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
    • Nutrition. 2015 Mar 1; 31 (3): 475-9.

    ObjectiveInflammation mediators have been recognized as risk factors for the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease (CAD). The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of L-carnitine supplementation (LC, 1000 mg/d) on inflammation markers in patients with CAD.MethodsWe enrolled 47 patients with CAD in the study. The patients with CAD were identified by cardiac catheterization as having <50% stenosis of one major coronary artery. The patients were randomly assigned to the placebo (n = 24) and LC (n = 23) groups and the intervention was administered for 12 wk. The levels of LC, antioxidant status (malondialdehyde and antioxidant enzymes activities), and inflammation markers (C-reactive protein [CRP], interleukin [IL]-6, and tumor necrosis factor [TNF]-α) were measured.ResultsThirty-nine participants completed the study (19 placebo; 20 LC). After LC supplementation, the levels of inflammation markers were significantly reduced compared with the baseline (CRP, P < 0.01; IL-6, P = 0.03; TNF-α, P = 0.07) and those in the placebo group (CRP, P < 0.05; IL-6, P = 0.04; TNF-α, P = 0.03). The levels of inflammation markers were significantly negatively correlated with the levels of LC and antioxidant enzymes activities (P < 0.05).ConclusionsWe suggest that LC supplementation, due to its antioxidant effects, may have potential utility to reduce inflammation in CAD.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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