Bernice and Joe Tanenbaum Chair in Preventive Medicine
Senior Vice Dean, Technion Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
Director, Clinical Research Institute at Rambam (CRIR), Haifa, Israel
Professor Michael Aviram THE LIPID RESEARCH LABORATORY
1. Professor Michael Aviram
THE LIPID RESEARCH LABORATORY
Bernice and Joe Tanenbaum Chair in Preventive Medicine
Senior Vice Dean, Technion Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
Director, Clinical Research Institute at Rambam (CRIR), Haifa, Israel
Rambam (Maimonides)
Cordova, Spain 1135-1204
Diet and Human Health
The Physician - Scientist
Aviram’s Education: Technion Faculty of Medicine
(Mentor – Nobel Laureate Avram Hershko)
Aviram’s Sabbaticals: MIT (Cambridge), Columbia U (NYC), UW (Seattle),
UM (Ann Arbor), UI (Urbana – Champaign)
36. Ten severe CAS
patients consumed
8 Ounces of PJ/day
for up to 4 years
Since we do not have yet an
appropriate noninvasive
means to measure coronary
lesion size in humans, we
analyzed carotid lesion by
ultrasonography
Carotid IMT Predicts
Coronary Events
37. But, what about the lesion size?
… To make a long story short…
LDL Oxidation decreased by 50% and serum
Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) activity increased by 100%
38. 0
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2
3
0
2
4
A. Control
B. Pomegranate Juice
Base Line After 1 year
CarotidIMT(mm)
ליום רימונים מיץ כוס שתיית,שנה למשך,התפתחות את מעכבת
התהליךהטרשתילנסיגה גורמת ואף(רגרסיה)בנגעהטרשתי
These results were
confirmed by Davidson and Aviram
(AJC, 2009)
in a subgroup of 300 CVD patients
who are under oxidative stress.Aviram M., Rosenbalt M., Gaitini D., Nitecki S., Hoffman A.,
Clinical Nutrition, 2004