The role of red yeast rice (RYR) supplementation in plasma cholesterol control: A review and expert opinion

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Hypertension, Chair of Nephrology and Hypertension, Medical University of Lodz, Poland; Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital Research Institute (PMMHRI), Lodz, Poland; Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, Poland.
• ² Endocrinologie Métabolisme et Prévention Cardiovasculaire, Institut E3M et IHU Cardiométabolique (ICAN), Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France; Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
• ³ Department of Internal Medicine, Centres Hospitaliers Jolimont, La Louvière and Department of Cardiology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc (UCLouvain), Bruxelles, Belgium.
• ⁴ Department of Internal medicine and clinical nutrition, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden.
• ⁵ National Medical Research Center of Cardiology of the Ministry of Health, Moscow, Russia.
• ⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; Department of Internal Medicine, Landeskrankenhaus Bregenz, Austria.
• ⁷ Division of Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre Ljubljana Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ⁸ Wihuri Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
• ⁹ Institute of Cardiology and Regenerative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia, Latvia; Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia.
• ¹⁰ Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria; Medical Clinic V, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany; SYNLAB Academy, SYNLAB Holding Deutschland GmbH, Mannheim and Augsburg, Germany.
• ¹¹ Department of Nutrition - Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
• ¹² Department of Internal Medicine, University of Debrecen Faculty of Medicine, Debrecen, Hungary.
• ¹³ 2nd Department of Cardiology of the East Slovak Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Faculty of Medicine PJ Safarik University, Kosice, Slovak Republic.
• ¹⁴ Center for the Study of Atherosclerosis, E. Bassini Hospital, Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, Italy; IRCCS MultiMedica, Sesto S. Giovanni, Milan, Italy.
• ¹⁵ Nutrition Foundation of Italy (NFI), Milan, Italy.
• ¹⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Center Zagreb, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
• ¹⁷ Department of Cardiology, Charité Berlin (CBF), Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), And DZHK (German Research Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany; Division of Angiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 15, 8036, Graz, Austria.
• ¹⁸ Tallinn University of Technology, School of Information Technologies, Department of Health Technologies, Estonia.
• ¹⁹ 3rd Department of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ²⁰ Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Multimedica IRCCS, Milano, Italy. Electronic address: alberico.catapano@unimi.it.