Hypocholesterolemic effect of flavonoids naringin and rutin.

Flavonoids are pigments fenolics of plants that possess several biological activities, and many of these are associated with prevention of chronic dis eases as cancer and hyperlipidemy. This work had as objective evaluates the effect of the flavonoids naringin and rutin on the metabolism lipidic of c hicks hypercholesterolemic. In agreement with the results it can be observe d that naringin and rutin reduced the levels of total cholesterol significa ntly, cholesterol-LDL, cholesterol-VLDL and triglycerols, not presenting, h owever, reductions in the levels of cholesterol-HDL.