It is most likely that cholesterol and bile acid hyposecretion make the AKR strain susceptible to the development of fatty livers and resistant to gallstone formation.
Bifidobacteria are thought to help maintain the normal intestinal balance, while improving lactose tolerance; to possess antitumorigenic activity; and to reduce serum cholesterol levels.
More and more attention is being paid to their functions in anti-cancer, analgesia, regulating cholesterol level in the human body,preventing atheroma,deinsectization and other aspects.
Synchysis scintillans is a degenerative condition of the eye resulting in liquified vitreous humor and the accumulation of cholesterol crystals within the vitreous.
Similarly, fenofibrate and the combination (but not simvastatin) significantly increased the percentage of buoyant LDL cholesterol constituting total LDL cholesterol.
What we're trying to avoid is this, LDL, or bad cholesterol building up as plaque in the blood vessel walls, because that plaque buildup is what can cause heart attacks.