The results suggest that a short-term ketogenic diet does not have a deleterious effect on CVD risk profile and may improve the lipid disorders characteristic of atherogenic dyslipidemia.
A ketogenic diet favorably affects serum biomarkers for cardiovascular disease in normal-weight men.
Sharman MJ, Kraemer WJ, Love DM, Avery NG, Gómez AL, Scheett TP, Volek JS.
J Nutr. 2002 Jul;132(7):1879-85.
PMID: 12097663
An isoenergetic very low carbohydrate diet improves serum HDL cholesterol and triacylglycerol concentrations, the total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol ratio and postprandial pipemic responses compared with a low fat diet in normal weight, normolipidemic women.
Volek JS, Sharman MJ, Gómez AL, Scheett TP, Kraemer WJ.
J Nutr. 2003 Sep;133(9):2756-61.
PMID: 12949361